Ok, so I've figured my issue out, but I would really appreciate someone
explianing to me what's happening. I'm using Mailman version 2.1.5 on Red
Hat Enterprise 3.0 update 4. Originally, Mailman made two entries in
/etc/aliases under 'Mailman Aliases':
#mailman aliases
mailman: postmaster
mailman-owner: mailman
However when I set up the recommended 'Mailman' site list, these two entries
were duplicated under 'Mailman Mailing List':
#mailman mailing list
mailman: "|/var/mailman/mail/mailman post mailman"
mailman-owner: "|/var/mailman/mail/mailman owner mailman"
As a result, /etc/aliases was complaining about having identical aliases. So
what I decided to comment out one of the duplicate entries.
However, what I found was that if I commented out the 'mailman' entry under
the 'Mailman Aliases' section, any mail sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
**seemed** to disappear. It wasn't sent to me, it wasn't returned and it
wasn't held in the MTA que.
But then I found if I uncommented the 'mailman' entry under the 'Mailman
Aliases' section and commented out the 'mailman' entry under the 'Mailman
Mailng List' section, then mail sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] was delivered
to me with no problem. So, now I'm just trying to figure out why this
happens? Any ideas?
-----Original Message-----
From: John Dennis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 1:03 PM
To: Jardar Eggesbà Abrahamsen
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [Mailman-Users] Changing Contact Mailing Address
On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 21:41 +0200, Jardar Eggesbà Abrahamsen wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, John Dennis wrote:
>
> > It's not the members page, its the General Options page,
> > http://your-server/mailman/admin/mailman
> >
> > It the second item down labeled "The list administrator email
> > addresses."
>
> Wouldn't that be the address that messages for [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> are sent to? Whereas messages for [EMAIL PROTECTED] are sent to the
> member(s) of the mailman list? Or did I miss something?
People don't email to the mailman list, its not meant to exist as a
mailing list. It serves a structural (admin) purpose, for example so
there is an origin for password reminders. There are normally no members
of the mailman list, its a special list often called the "site list".
--
John Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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