On 1/28/21 5:36 AM, Bader, Robert (Bob) wrote:

I have a list on my mailman server 2.1 called “mailman”, with no users. Is this a default list that gets created, can I delete it what is it for,

No, you can't delete it. Mailman 2.1 requires that you have a site list, normally called mailman and won't run without it.

It is used as the sender of some notices and is exposed on the web admin and listinfo pages as a place to go for help.

it may have been created by an old admin who was testing? Also, I started getting a lot of subscription requests to this list, I think it is a bot, but not sure what it is trying to do. Anyway this got me thinking. Is there a way to setup a list to automatically discard subscription requests and NOT send a rejection notice? I could ban all domains from that list, but it is my understanding a rejection notice gets sent. We have some lists where the admin is the person who populates the list.

For the mailman list we recommend subscribing the site admin(s) and setting generic_nonmember_action to accept and subscribe policy to Require approval and discard any subscription requests.

You can set the ban_list to

^.

This will not send a rejection notice if the subscription attempt is via the web. It will only send a notice if the subscription request is via email, but bots don't normally subscribe this way.

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