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revno: 47
committer: Mark Sapiro <[email protected]>
branch nick: admin
timestamp: Fri 2009-08-14 13:10:59 -0700
message:
Added a warning notice advising putting a MAILTO= in the crontab
modified:
doc/mailman-install.tex*
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=== modified file 'doc/mailman-install.tex' (properties changed: -x to +x)
--- doc/mailman-install.tex 2008-12-06 00:22:28 +0000
+++ doc/mailman-install.tex 2009-08-14 20:10:59 +0000
@@ -1294,7 +1294,7 @@
You should make any changes to \file{mm_cfg.py} using the account you
installed Mailman under in the \ref{building} section.
-\section{Create a site-wide mailing list}
+\section{Create a site-wide mailing list\label{site-list}}
After you have completed the integration of Mailman and your mail server, you
need to create a ``site-wide'' mailing list. This is the one that password
@@ -1354,6 +1354,28 @@
% crontab crontab.in
\end{verbatim}
+\begin{notice}[warning]
+If you accepted the defaults for the \longprogramopt{with-username} option
+and for the name of the site list, and one of the cron jobs ever encounters an
+error, the cron daemon will mail the error output to the 'mailman' user and
+it will most likely be delivered to the 'mailman' site list and possibly not
+be accepted. For this reason it is a good idea to insert
+
+\begin{verbatim}
+ [email protected]
+\end{verbatim}
+
+or
+
+\begin{verbatim}
+ MAILTO=mailman-owner
+\end{verbatim}
+
+at the beginning of crontab.in before installing it to cause this output to
+be mailed to a real user or to the owner of the site list or to configure
+the site list (see section \ref{site-list}) to accept this mail.
+\end{notice}
+
\section{Start the Mailman qrunner}
Mailman depends on a process called the ``qrunner'' to delivery all
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