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.
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