Due to various reasons, I had to change my site name from 'mailman' to something else. It is not clear from the documentation what mailboxes are really required. The site list is not used for anything other than processing reminders and other administrative functions. What I need to know is what names are required for proper function. I am limited by my ISP to the number of subaccounts I can have so I can't have more than the absolute essentials. For a regular mailing list I have the following mailboxes:
<name> <name>-owner <name>-confirm <name>-join <name>-leave <name>-request
For the site list I have:
<sitename>-owner <sitename>-bounces
For the most part this seems to be working under normal circumstances. What happens to mail from the regular list that bounces? Do I need <name>-bounces or does it go to <sitename>-bounces? Are these mailboxes sufficient or do I need others (I can add a maximum of 2 more) particularly when something goes wrong. It seems like my problem area is when something bad happens, I don't get notified. That is the reason I had to change my site name so I can retrieve bounces.
TIA.
On 6/14/11 9:53 AM, Dennis Putnam wrote:
Due to various reasons, I had to change my site name from 'mailman' to something else. It is not clear from the documentation what mailboxes are really required. The site list is not used for anything other than processing reminders and other administrative functions. What I need to know is what names are required for proper function. I am limited by my ISP to the number of subaccounts I can have so I can't have more than the absolute essentials. For a regular mailing list I have the following mailboxes:
<name> <name>-owner <name>-confirm <name>-join <name>-leave <name>-request
For the site list I have:
<sitename>-owner <sitename>-bounces
For the most part this seems to be working under normal circumstances. What happens to mail from the regular list that bounces? Do I need <name>-bounces or does it go to<sitename>-bounces? Are these mailboxes sufficient or do I need others (I can add a maximum of 2 more) particularly when something goes wrong. It seems like my problem area is when something bad happens, I don't get notified. That is the reason I had to change my site name so I can retrieve bounces.
TIA.
Bounces to a list email message go to <listname>-bounces, so you probably need that one. There is also <listname>-admin defined, which I think is just an alias for <listname>-bounces, and I don't think the list itself actually addresses anything to that.
-- Richard Damon
Richard Damon wrote:
On 6/14/11 9:53 AM, Dennis Putnam wrote: [...]
For the most part this seems to be working under normal circumstances. What happens to mail from the regular list that bounces? Do I need <name>-bounces or does it go to<sitename>-bounces? Are these mailboxes sufficient or do I need others (I can add a maximum of 2 more) particularly when something goes wrong. It seems like my problem area is when something bad happens, I don't get notified. That is the reason I had to change my site name so I can retrieve bounces.
TIA.
Bounces to a list email message go to <listname>-bounces, so you probably need that one. There is also <listname>-admin defined, which I think is just an alias for <listname>-bounces, and I don't think the list itself actually addresses anything to that.
Correct. the -admin address is not used. It only exists because it was used in Mailman 2.0.
However, you should probably have a <sitename> in addition to <sitename>-owner and <sitename>-bounces because this address is exposed on the admin and listinfo overview web pages.
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