repurposing the -request alias on an autogenerated aliases file?
Here at work, we've found that mailman's "-request" alias has stomped another already-existing function (under our previous list, we used that for administrative requests, and on this particular list, that's not negotiable -- it needs to duplicate the function of xxx-owner).
However, we're using automatic aliases. Is there some way to quell or suppress the creation (or re-creation) of that particular alias (for one list only), without having to go to manual aliases?
That is to say, if I hand-edited both $mailman/data/aliases and aliases.db (by rebuilding it from the new aliases file) -- would mailman revert it on me the next time I created a list?
-Dan Mahoney
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Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:
That is to say, if I hand-edited both $mailman/data/aliases and aliases.db (by rebuilding it from the new aliases file) -- would mailman revert it on me the next time I created a list?
No. It will only revert if you run Mailman's bin/genaliases to regenerate all the aliases.
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On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 02:10:38PM -0500, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:
However, we're using automatic aliases. Is there some way to quell or suppress the creation (or re-creation) of that particular alias (for one list only), without having to go to manual aliases?
Check the order of your (MTA) routers, and add something there? It's what I do on a couple of lists, where we wanted to lazily over-ride things.
And check on delivery, using your MTA's diag tools, obviously.
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On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 07:22:16PM +0000, Adam McGreggor wrote:
On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 02:10:38PM -0500, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:
However, we're using automatic aliases. Is there some way to quell or suppress the creation (or re-creation) of that particular alias (for one list only), without having to go to manual aliases?
Check the order of your (MTA) routers, and add something there? It's what I do on a couple of lists, where we wanted to lazily over-ride things.
And check on delivery, using your MTA's diag tools, obviously.
/me learns to read...
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