On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:45:43 +0100, LuKreme <[email protected]> wrote:
I may have asked this before, but if so I can't find it in my archives.
Is there a way to send a test message to a list without it being sent
out to the entire list? Something like a ping that only replies to you?
I have a list I host for a friend that is very sporadic. When active it
can get 100 posts a day, but those days come infrequently.
Sometimes he's concerned that posts are getting lost (it's happened in
the past that some configuration muckup has borked the list) and he'd
like to be able to check that the list is ok.
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.
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Malcolm Austen, Oxfordshire, England
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