[Mailman-Users] empty gateway archive

Mark Sapiro mark at msapiro.net
Thu Aug 30 05:20:51 CEST 2012


Mark Sapiro wrote:

> cron/gate_news normally logs nothing, but if there is any exception or
> other output, it will be mailed to the address specified in a MAILTO=
> setting in the crontab or if none, to the user it ran under which is
> normally the 'mailman' list.


Actually, that is not correct. Mailman has a logs/fromusenet log an
cron/gate_news logs various errors in that log as well as logging the
usenet message numbers of messages posted to the mail list or the fact
that there were no new messages. I.e., cron/gate_news logs quite a lot.

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