[Mailman-Users] how to disable main mailman-request and mailman list without stopping mailman functionality

[Mark Sapiro]

On 1/26/20 9:03 AM, Jelle de Jong wrote:
> 
> PS. I had mailman not advertised by default but some Debian update a 
> while back seem to have made it advertised. I disabled the advertising 
> of the list but the spam keeps coming. Maybe disable advertising by 
> default for the mailman default list?


First, advertised or not, it is well known that every Mailman 2.1 
installation has a site list, usually called mailman. Also the 
mailman at example.com address is exposed on both the listinfo and admin 
overview pages in the web UI.


> What are the recommended steps?

It depends on how your MTA deliveres to Mailman. If it uses aliases, you 
can change the mailman-request alias in mailman's aliases, but if 
Mailman automatically generates these, that may get undone. A better 
approach is to put an alias for the mailman-request and maybe other 
mailman- addresses in an alias file that is processed before Mailman's 
aliases or delivery. You can use these to send the mail to /dev/null or 
to some user or mailbox if you want to see the mail.

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