> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Malcolm Austen
> I habitually configure lists with spam filter entries of the form: > > ^Subject:.*test.* > > Other entries contain the words 'spam', 'virus' and 'digest'. > Then, if you only want to test the process to the list, all > you need do is put 'test' > into the subject line. > > You could, of course, apply emergency moderation for the > duration of the test! > > I'm sure there are other options (I don't have back-end shell > access to my > lists) that involve stopping the outgoing mail and archive handlers. > > = Malcolm. I'm not too sure how useful this would be for testing "end-to-end" throughput. When I was a little green about the gills (or greener than I am now) wrt. Mailman I had a problem with an intermittently "unresponsive" list. I looked at most things I could think of but couldn't find the problem. Eventually the penny dropped and I "realised" that those pesky 'runner' processes had something to do with something in particular the Incoming and Outgoing runner. Sure enough my process list showed that the Incoming runner was there but the Outgoing runner would "die". (I fixed that issue, it was something to do with directory ownerships). End result, email came into the list and then just sat there. Anyway, if you had a spam rule then surely that'd be great for testing the message coming into the list at which point it'd be blocked (as spam) but it wouldn't test whether the message would be mailed out/forwarded to the list members. I'm showing a bit of interest in this request as I'd like to know if there is a way of doing just this, sending a test email to an established list that only list admin and/or myself would recive to check the list is running fine. One thought/idea I've had is to have a "test" list which has only my work email address, an offsite email address and maybe one or two of my colleagues (for verification purposes), lock it right down so that only the members can use it, add the "Me too" tag so that we'd receive any emails we sent to the list and use that to check that the mailman service is functional. Does that sound a valid way of doing it, too much effort FWIW or missing the point as it wouldn't test a particular list just the mailman service? Regards, Steff --------------- Steff Watkins Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD Systems programmer Email: [email protected] Systems Team Phone: +44 (0)20 7942 6000 opt 2 ======== Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans. - HHGTTG ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
