On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 12:12:52PM +0100, Steff Watkins wrote: > 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.
That might be one way; although useful for those of us not on some tuppence ha'penny shoe-string "ISP" who believe in limiting the amount of mail transmissions (and where the punter may not know of those limits). Of course, MTA problems may also exist, which that approach wouldn't examine (nor do I see mention of testing the web interfaces work). *brainfart* Perhaps a Mailman-admin's 'test suite' might be useful? And presumably have the option to run (gah!) via the web-admin interface, as well as the command line > 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? using config_list on a "troublesome" list, a spot of sed/withlist, and config_list on a new list, may be one way to transfer the list settings over; possibly followed by remove_members -a and add_members; all of that could be made into a two arguements "clonelist" script. This doesn't, of course, help, if Mailman's not running -- never rule out (or forget about) the obvious -- nor, say if there's a lack of disk-space. I can't remember what, if anything, was decided about test lists in MM3. I'll be waiting for MM3, before I start fiddling with trending Mailman in Nagios; for now, my "last posts" script/output does the job well enough (and I am a lazy sysadmin) for me. -- ``What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary.'' (Richard Harkness) ------------------------------------------------------ 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
