At 8:17 AM -0400 2005-09-01, Tom Limoncelli wrote:
> I was always
> impressed at how mailman needed so little maintenance (I previously ran
> majordomo since around 1993, and moved to mailman in 2000).
That's why I switched from Majordomo, although I think I made
that switch a bit later than you did.
> It is one
> of the few bits of software that I run that "runs itself" after
> installation. I'm currently using Mailman version 2.1.2.
Note that there are many improvements with more recent versions
of Mailman, and if you haven't applied the appropriate patch, there
is a known security vulnerability in versions older than 2.1.6. I
would encourage you to look at upgrading, or at the very least
ensuring that you've got the security patch applied.
> Would it be worth it to do a "mailmanctl" every 49 weeks as a preventive
> measure? Is there a recommended way to automate this? I'm concerned
> that I might not remember to do it in July 2006. I might be traveling then.
>
> Is this a common problem with mailman? Should I be concerned?
Well, it's the first I've heard of such a problem, but I wouldn't
be too surprised that there was some sort of a 48-52 week bug.
We have had occasional reports of problems in the past with
messages getting stuck and then cleared by a restart, but I haven't
heard of anyone finding out any specifics regarding the underlying
cause, and I haven't heard of anyone noting a commonality between
uptime and messages being stuck.
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