[Mailman-Users] setting a list for no daily reminders?

John W. Baxter jwblist at olympus.net
Sat Nov 20 22:47:51 CET 2004


On 11/20/2004 9:30, "Mark Sapiro" <msapiro at value.net> wrote:

> Mark wrote:
>> 
>> I am running a list set to immediately send administrative requests
>> (admin_immed_notify  set to yes), but I am getting daily notices as
>> well.  I don't want to receive daily notices.  The immediate notices
>> are sufficient.  Nor do I see the logic in filling my inbox with
>> daily notices when I'm not around or haven't had a chance to process
>> the immediate notices that are already sitting there.
>> 
>> Is there any way to change this??
> 
> You could delete the checkdbs entry from crontab, but this would affect
> all lists and also would have the side effect of never clearing stale
> entries from hold_and_cmd_autoresponses[] (I don't think this is
> serious because I don't think there is ever more than one entry per
> user - stale entries get "reused").
> 
> The only other way and the only way to do it per list is to change the
> code in checkdbs.

The easy thing to do would be to use your mail program's filters to get rid
of the daily notices for you.  You appear to be using Eudora 6, so the
filters are quite capable of doing that.

  --John



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