Re: email/tools: WG unsubscribe notification

Fred Baker <fredbaker.ietf@gmail.com> Thu, 19 May 2022 04:24 UTC

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Subject: Re: email/tools: WG unsubscribe notification
Date: Wed, 18 May 2022 21:23:57 -0700
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When I get these on v6ops, which happens from time to time, it usually means that there has been an email in queue that has timed out or otherwise been found undeliverable. The single most common situation is that the recipient is in China; draw your own conclusions.

My gut tells me that the issue is political with technical ramifications.

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> On May 18, 2022, at 4:51 PM, Toerless Eckert <tte@cs.fau.de> wrote:
> 
> Dear IETF email team
> 
> (As ANIMA WG chair) i just received 31 emails of the type
> 
>> Date: Wed, 18 May 2022 09:00:01 -0700
>> From: mailman-bounces@ietf.org
>> To: anima-owner@ietf.org
>> Subject: Anima unsubscribe notification
>> 
>> someone@example.com has been removed from Anima. (disabled address)
> 
> I don't remember i have seen this before over the years. If this is a new feature,
> and there was an email explaining it, i must have missed the email or URL
> explaining it. Pointer welcome. 
> 
> This looks like a nice feature to eliminate old junk, except that i am worried
> (after the recent incident with my own emails spam filter caused unsubscription),
> how exactly the condition "disabled address" is determined.
> 
> In general, i am not a big fan of what is probably intended as a user-friendly
> explanation such as "disabled address" without also providing the actual
> root cause diagnostic. It ony gives me "Admiral Failure" frustration.
> 
> When i sent an email to one of the addresses i did know to be obsolete,
> SMTP gave me:
> 
> <someone@somewhere.com>: host mx5.somewhere.com[1xx.xx.xx.xxx] said: 551                                            
>    5.1.1 <someone@somewhere.com>: Recipient address rejected: Failed                                            
>    recipient validation check.: host 127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1] said: 554 5.7.1                                             
>    recipient verify from ldap failed (in reply to RCPT TO command) (in reply                                          
>    to RCPT TO command)  
> 
> I would appreciate if this error indication would also be included in the
> "Unsubscribe notification" email, so that we as WG chairs (or other mailing
> list owners) can do our best to help finding false positives.
> 
> Cheers
>    Toerless
>