Mailing list subscription problems

[David Standish]

On 12/19/22, Kyle Marek via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
> (CC'd the public mailing list for visibility of problems that may be
> affecting others)
>
> Hello,
>
> Today I received an email from cygwin-bounces@cygwin.com with the
> subject line of "You have been unsubscribed from the Cygwin mailing
> list". I also just noticed that my Cygwin directory doesn't have any
> emails since the email identified by the following headers:
>
> Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2022 00:42:07 -0800
> Message-ID: <uTYFejifn-dsEe8GqEkFJQ@notifications.google.com>
> Subject: You have been added to Newcommercial08
> From: Newcommercial08 <newcommercial08+noreply@googlegroups.com>
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
>
> I'm pretty sure the from address is so bounces are returned to an
> address that monitors for bounces. I am guessing that Google has been
> bouncing emails from the Cygwin mailing servers, and mailman
> automatically unsubscribed me after 25 days of not being able to deliver
> a single email to me. However, I am still receiving emails from mailman
> itself.
>
> I re-subscribed, logged into the mailman web interface, and confirming
> that I am re-subscribed as of 02:47 UTC. I can see on the online archive
> that the mailing list has received emails since then, but I am still not
> receiving them. Note that they are NOT being sent to my spam directory.
>
> So... Are the mailing list emails being bounced by Google?
>
> Thank you,
> Kyle Marek
>
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I've experienced the same problem.  I reactivated my subscription a
couple times.

More cygwin mail has been getting through to me that last few days.
Hopefully google has relaxed their filtering,

David