Darren G Pifer wrote: > >When I started sendmail and mailman, I started to see a lot of messages >in /var/spool/mqueue. The sendmail (qf) queue files had these lines: > >... >H??MIME-Version: 1.0 >H??Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >H??Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >H??Subject: test.list.odu.edu mailing list memberships reminder >H??From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >H??To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >H??X-No-Archive: yes >H??Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >H??Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 05:00:28 -0500 >H??Precedence: bulk >H??X-BeenThere: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >H??X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 >H??List-Id: Mailman site list <mailman.test.list.odu.edu> >... > >So, it appears that mailman was trying to send out password reminders >even though it should not have run. The system is configured to execute >the monthly password reminders only on the first on the month. Since >the day of the install was Sunday, Feb. 3rd, it should not have run.
The password reminders were generated for the test lists on Feb 1 at 05:00 >H??Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 05:00:28 -0500 Apparently, the crontab was installed so cron/mailpasswds ran and generated the reminders which were queued, and when you started mailman they were sent. > >My questions are: > >1) Why did mailman send out the password reminders, when they shouldn't >have? As a FYI, I did not add a mailman crontab as the mailman crontab >on Red Hat runs out of /etc/cron.d. See above. >2) Why did the messages contain any reference to test.list.odu.edu? >Where could this information be define? Because the reminders were created on Feb 1 when you still had the test lists on the server. -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
