Steff Watkins writes: > 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?
This is precisely what I do. It is possible, but unlikely, that a particular list would have a problem. For example, it could have something to do with the size of the list, such as recipient MTAs not liking too many RCPT TOs on a single message, or a fascist (message-dropping) throttle at your ISP. But the outgoing runner doesn't care what the list is, and neither does the MTA, so the test list *is* a valid test, especially for the (fairly common, as Mailman failures go) failure case of a runner going down. At least you can rule that out. ------------------------------------------------------ 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
