Robin Bartholomew wrote: >I want to make sure some lists are definitely not used before deleting >them. To temporarily disable a list, is moving the list directory >(/home/mailman/lists/list_name) to a temporary directory an acceptable >solution or is there a better way to go about this?
If you have an MTA that programmatically determines how to deliver mail to the various list addresses based on something in /home/mailman/lists/list_name rather than using aliases, then moving /home/mailman/lists/list_name elsewhere is effectively deleting the list (but not the archives) with backup. If this is what you want, then that's a perfectly good approach. If you have MTA aliases and you don't remove them, there won't be much difference. In this case, the MTA will try to deliver to a list address, and the mail wrapper/script will report a non-existent list back to the MTA which in turn should report that back to the sender. -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
