sciguy via Talk wrote on 2026-03-15 12:29:
Here is the first paragraph of that email:
You are receiving this email because you, or someone else, tried to access an account with email sciguy@vex.net. However, we do not have any record of such an account in our database.
That is the issue I was having. So, would it be fine to register this email address on the website, pretending it's a new account? This seems kind of weird.
That's correct - the mailing list knows you're subscribed, but the web interface is a different entity with different credentials. So, signing up with the website is required. With Mailman2, subscribing automatically creates an user (email) and password combo. I'm not entirely sure why they've done it this way, but the web interface is much nicer with MM3 - especially searching the archives within the archives. MM3 treats users differently in that a user can have multiple email addresses with their own subscriptions, as opposed to a user having multiple accounts with different email addresses. Hope that helps?