[Mailman-Users] Message for mailman at site list - how to discard?

[Todd]

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Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote:
> As was recommended by some of the documentation (a long time ago,
> sorry, no reference), I created the master list named 'mailman'
> which apparently is used by mailman internally. Now somebody spammed
> the mailman at site email alias (can I safely delete mailman.*
> aliases?), and I got a 'message is held for spam' message, with a
> link to admindb.

IMO, a better solution would be to set all mail from non-members to be
discarded automatically.  The only members of the mailman site list
are the site admins so any spam sent there will just get dropped.

> However, https://<site>/mailman/cgi-bin/admindb/mailman redirects me
> to the listinfo page, so there's no way to discard this message, so
> I now get a daily reminder that there is this message held - a bit
> annoying...

You have a broken redirect in your apache config.  You need to fix or
remove that so you can get into the mailman site-list admin pages.  If
you have trouble with figuring out the proper regular expression to
fix your redirect, post what you have to the list and someone will
likely be able to help you get it right.  Some of the rpm packages
I've seen have a redirect like this which causes the problem you're
seeing:

RedirectMatch /mailman[/]*$ http://www.example.com/mailman/listinfo

(In the Red Hat rpms I'm familiar with, this redirect is commented out
by default but the comment recommends uncommenting it after changing
the FQDN to match your server's name.)

One way to fix this is to add a ^ at the beginning of the URI to only
match the pattern when the URI starts with /mailman, like so:

RedirectMatch ^/mailman[/]*$ http://www.example.com/mailman/listinfo

HTH,

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