Noisebridge-announce mailing list not reliable

[ruthgrace]

Hi Rack team,

I think that the Noisebridge-announce mailing list is broken. I was able to approve one message from myself in March (see https://lists.noisebridge.net/pipermail/noisebridge-announce/), but I haven't gotten a Your message to Noisebridge-announce awaits moderator approval email since January.

On April 7th I tried to send an email and not only was I missing the approval email, I also never saw my email in the queue to be approved. (I posted this on #rack on the day it happened: https://noisebridge.slack.com/archives/C02A1V2PY/p1554698101003700)

It's really nice to have the Announce mailing list as it reaches some people (especially some members of the community that have been around a long time) that Meetup.com/Slack/Discuss don't reach. What needs to be done to get this back in working order?

Thanks
Ruth

[SuperQ]

We need to do more work on the mailman infra.

• I've seen a bunch of signup spam, which I think may be crashing the process.
• We need to update to the current major release, we're on a deprecated version.

There's already an open issue for upgrading: #68. Part of my plan was to move the lists to a different VPS instance.

[ruthgrace]

What's the quick and dirty fix to remediate the outage while the longer term upgrades take place? Ruth

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[ruthgrace]

I'd love some guidance on this. I tried to send an email today, and I was able to approve it, but I got this. I use the announce mailing list regularly for laser trainings and fundraising announcements.

[ruthgrace]

happend again today when i tried to email noisebridge-discuss about the elevator being down for maintenance :(

[marcidy]

@SuperQ Is there logging that can track this stuff available? I poked around in grafana and didn't see something i could recognize. And im not sure if I have access to prometheus externally, i couldn't figure it out.