Mailman Site Admin email Problem
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Mailman used to send me an email as the "site admin" that a new list has been created. I use the web interface to create new lists. This email had the aliases I needed to add to the /etc/mail/aliases file in the body of the email. I have upgraded Mailman months ago but didn't notice that I had not been receiving this until now as the lists were already setup.
I know I can run the genaliases command to get the same output but I fear I am not seeing all of the mailman site admin email.
Is the email sent from a python script to an alias? is it specified in a config file?
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Sean Murphy wrote:
This mail is only sent if MTA = 'Manual'. If you have MTA = 'Postfix' or MTA = None in mm_cfg.py, no aliases mail will be sent.
When sent, the mail is sent to mailman-owner@... (or whatever the name of the site list is). You can test if this mail is deliverable by just mailing anything to that address.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
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Mark Sapiro wrote:
I checked the mm_cfg.py and then the defaults.py it is currently set to manual, that should be good. So I think the email address for the site admin is incorrect. I did a couple of searches in those files above with no luck. Where do I change the "site admin's" email address?
Thanks
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Sean Murphy wrote:
As I said, the mail is sent to mailman-owner@... (assuming the site list is named 'mailman' and is ultimately sent to the owner of that list.
Go to the admin web interface for the 'mailman' list (something like http://www.example.com/mailman/admin/mailman/), log in and set 'owner' (The list administrator email addresses. Multiple administrator addresses, each on separate line is okay.)
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
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Sean Murphy wrote:
This mail is only sent if MTA = 'Manual'. If you have MTA = 'Postfix' or MTA = None in mm_cfg.py, no aliases mail will be sent.
When sent, the mail is sent to mailman-owner@... (or whatever the name of the site list is). You can test if this mail is deliverable by just mailing anything to that address.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
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Mark Sapiro wrote:
I checked the mm_cfg.py and then the defaults.py it is currently set to manual, that should be good. So I think the email address for the site admin is incorrect. I did a couple of searches in those files above with no luck. Where do I change the "site admin's" email address?
Thanks
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Sean Murphy wrote:
As I said, the mail is sent to mailman-owner@... (assuming the site list is named 'mailman' and is ultimately sent to the owner of that list.
Go to the admin web interface for the 'mailman' list (something like http://www.example.com/mailman/admin/mailman/), log in and set 'owner' (The list administrator email addresses. Multiple administrator addresses, each on separate line is okay.)
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
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