On 08/24/10 18:28, Mark Sapiro wrote:
Stoyan Angelov wrote:
i want to temporary disable one of my mailing lists while keeping the
archives available. i run mailman 2.1.12 with sendmail. i was thinking
about doing the following:
. remove the appropriate aliases from /path/to/aliases (redirecting the
<mailling-list>-owner of the affected list to some real address)
. move the /path/to/mailman/lists/<disabled-list> directory to a
temporary location
is this the proper way to disable a list? is there anything else that
needs to be done?
Yes, that is a good way to temporarily disable a list. I think you
could actually leave the aliases in place (except for maybe changing
the -owner alias), and the pipe to the mail/mailman wrapper will fail
resulting in a reject to the sender. You should test to see if you
think the reject is appropriate. You can do this by creating an alias
like
bogus: "|/path/to/mail/mailman post bogus"
and sending a message to that address.
hello Mark,
thank you for your answer! very helpful as always; please excuse my very
late reply...
i did the test with sending a test message to a bogus alias - the good
thing is that in the returned message there is some info:
----- Transcript of session follows -----
post script, list not found: bogus
554 5.3.0 unknown mailer error 1
this is nice since it says... "no such list here" and i am also able to
see all failed posts in mailman's error log. the negative thing is that
the returned mail exposes my mailman installation path:
The original message was received at Fri, 17 Sep 2010 17:35:10 +0300 (EEST)
from myhost.mydomain.dom [192.192.192.192]
----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
"|/my/real/path/to/mailman/mail/mailman post bogus"
<snip>
Final-Recipient: RFC822; [email protected]
X-Actual-Recipient: X-Unix; |/my/real/path/to/mailman/mail/mailman post
bogus
<snip>
greetings,
Stoyan
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