My attempt to log into the TLUG talk website
I don't know if this is the right venue for this email, but if someone is running the site, could you please explain to me how it is that email is being sent to me from TLUG as it has been now for some decades, and when I try to log into https://lists.gtalug.org, I am told by means of some script that it hasn't heard of me, and there is no record of sciguy@vex.net existing. How am I now expected to make adjustments to my account if I am receiving email, yet the server is telling me I don't exist? Paul King
Send an email to talk-request@lists.gtalug.org with subject and body of "help". It'll give you a list of commands you can send to that email address to manage your account. One of them is to retrieve or set your password, too. On Sat, 14 Mar 2026 at 12:25, sciguy via Talk <talk@lists.gtalug.org> wrote:
I don't know if this is the right venue for this email, but if someone is running the site, could you please explain to me how it is that email is being sent to me from TLUG as it has been now for some decades, and when I try to log into https://lists.gtalug.org, I am told by means of some script that it hasn't heard of me, and there is no record of sciguy@vex.net existing.
How am I now expected to make adjustments to my account if I am receiving email, yet the server is telling me I don't exist?
Paul King ------------------------------------ Description: GTALUG Talk Unsubscribe via Talk-unsubscribe@lists.gtalug.org Start a new thread: talk@lists.gtalug.org This message archived at https://lists.gtalug.org/archives/list/talk@lists.gtalug.org/message/G5LRU5D...
I tried the "help" command, so I would guess that is an indication that the mailing list itself knows about me. On the website, when I sent for a password reset, I received in this email account an email with the subject line: [lists.gtalug.org] Unknown Account 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. Paul King On 2026-03-14 13:51, Tim Tisdall via Talk wrote:
Send an email to talk-request@lists.gtalug.org with subject and body of "help". It'll give you a list of commands you can send to that email address to manage your account. One of them is to retrieve or set your password, too.
On Sat, 14 Mar 2026 at 12:25, sciguy via Talk <talk@lists.gtalug.org> wrote:
I don't know if this is the right venue for this email, but if someone is running the site, could you please explain to me how it is that email is being sent to me from TLUG as it has been now for some decades, and when I try to log into https://lists.gtalug.org, I am told by means of some script that it hasn't heard of me, and there is no record of sciguy@vex.net existing.
How am I now expected to make adjustments to my account if I am receiving email, yet the server is telling me I don't exist?
Paul King ------------------------------------ Description: GTALUG Talk Unsubscribe via Talk-unsubscribe@lists.gtalug.org Start a new thread: talk@lists.gtalug.org This message archived at https://lists.gtalug.org/archives/list/talk@lists.gtalug.org/message/G5LRU5D...
------------------------------------ Description: GTALUG Talk Unsubscribe via Talk-unsubscribe@lists.gtalug.org Start a new thread: talk@lists.gtalug.org This message archived at https://lists.gtalug.org/archives/list/talk@lists.gtalug.org/message/35GF66N...
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?
sciguy via Talk wrote on 2026-03-14 09:19:
when I try to log into https://lists.gtalug.org, I am told by means of some script that it hasn't heard of me, and there is no record of sciguy@vex.net existing.
How am I now expected to make adjustments to my account if I am receiving email, yet the server is telling me I don't exist?
Mailman3 is dramatically different than Mailman2 for most things, although for users sending / receiving email, it's pretty seamless. With the old Mailman2, when subscribing / confirming, it would send a clear-text password that could be used to manage user settings. Some settings could be configured via emailing commands to the $list-request@list.domain.tld, but not all MM2 commands are supported with MM3. With MM3, one can subscribe without a password, but to manage one's account via the web interface, that's a separate sign-up. It's kinda weird at first, but also kinda makes sense. At least no clear-text passwords are sent around. So, the web front end doesn't know about you, you'd have to sign up there to change your account settings, delivery options, etc. There's a guide here: https://docs.mailman3.org/en/latest/userguide.html#
participants (3)
-
Ron -
sciguy -
Tim Tisdall