Last modified 12 years ago
Last modified on 07/31/06 11:01:52
GNU MailMan is the email list software that both the SIG lists and the CAC-managed UW lists.
If you manage a list, by default messages that look like spam will be until you tell mailman what action to take. You will get a notice with a link to the list page and a message like:
Pending posts: From: johntom_22@infinito.it on Sat Jul 29 04:39:16 2006 Subject: FROM JOHN TOM Cause: Message has implicit destination
If you want to automatically discard held messages:
- Go to the list Admin interface
- Click on Privacy Options
- Click on Sender filters
- near the top, set member_moderation_action to Discard
- at the bottom, set generic_nonmember_action to Discard
- set forward_auto_discards to Yes if you want to get a notice of discarded messages
Misc SysAdmin Tips
Creating a new mailing list:
/usr/lib/mailman/bin/newlist listname # add list aliases to /etc/aliases newaliases
If you ever need to regenerate all archives for a mailing list, run:
/usr/lib/mailman/bin/arch listname
You can set the master password with
/usr/lib/mailman/bin/mmsitepass