[Mailman-Users] Changing Contact Mailing Address

[Staven Bruce]

Ok, so I've figured my issue out, but I would really appreciate someone
explianing to me what's happening. I'm using Mailman version 2.1.5 on Red
Hat Enterprise 3.0 update 4. Originally, Mailman made two entries in
/etc/aliases under 'Mailman Aliases':

	#mailman aliases

	mailman:        postmaster
	mailman-owner: mailman

However when I set up the recommended 'Mailman' site list, these two entries
were duplicated under 'Mailman Mailing List':

	#mailman mailing list
	mailman:              "|/var/mailman/mail/mailman post mailman"
	mailman-owner:        "|/var/mailman/mail/mailman owner mailman"

As a result, /etc/aliases was complaining about having identical aliases. So
what I decided to comment out one of the duplicate entries. 

However, what I found was that if I commented out the 'mailman' entry under
the 'Mailman Aliases' section, any mail sent to mailman at mydomain.com
**seemed** to disappear. It wasn't sent to me, it wasn't returned and it
wasn't held in the MTA que. 

But then I found if I uncommented the 'mailman' entry under the 'Mailman
Aliases' section and commented out the 'mailman' entry under the 'Mailman
Mailng List' section, then mail sent to mailman at mydomain.com was delivered
to me with no problem. So, now I'm just trying to figure out why this
happens? Any ideas?

  

-----Original Message-----
From: John Dennis [mailto:jdennis at redhat.com]
Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 1:03 PM
To: Jardar Eggesbø Abrahamsen
Cc: mailman-users at python.org
Subject: RE: [Mailman-Users] Changing Contact Mailing Address


On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 21:41 +0200, Jardar Eggesbø Abrahamsen wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, John Dennis wrote:
> 
> > It's not the members page, its the General Options page,
> > http://your-server/mailman/admin/mailman
> > 
> > It the second item down labeled "The list administrator email
> > addresses."
> 
> Wouldn't that be the address that messages for mailman-owner at domain.tld 
> are sent to? Whereas messages for mailman at domain.tld are sent to the 
> member(s) of the mailman list? Or did I miss something?

People don't email to the mailman list, its not meant to exist as a
mailing list. It serves a structural (admin) purpose, for example so
there is an origin for password reminders. There are normally no members
of the mailman list, its a special list often called the "site list".
-- 
John Dennis <jdennis at redhat.com>

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