On 1/28/21 5:36 AM, Bader, Robert (Bob) wrote: > I have a list on my mailman server 2.1 called “mailman”, with no users. Is > this a default list that gets created, can I delete it what is it for,
No, you can't delete it. Mailman 2.1 requires that you have a site list, normally called `mailman` and won't run without it. It is used as the sender of some notices and is exposed on the web admin and listinfo pages as a place to go for help. > it may have been created by an old admin who was testing? Also, I started > getting a lot of subscription requests to this list, I think it is a bot, but > not sure what it is trying to do. Anyway this got me thinking. Is there a way > to setup a list to automatically discard subscription requests and NOT send a > rejection notice? I could ban all domains from that list, but it is my > understanding a rejection notice gets sent. We have some lists where the > admin is the person who populates the list. For the `mailman` list we recommend subscribing the site admin(s) and setting generic_nonmember_action to accept and subscribe policy to Require approval and discard any subscription requests. You can set the ban_list to ``` ^. ``` This will not send a rejection notice if the subscription attempt is via the web. It will only send a notice if the subscription request is via email, but bots don't normally subscribe this way. -- Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list -- mailman-users@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to mailman-users-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/mailman-users.python.org/ Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: https://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users@python.org/ https://mail.python.org/archives/list/mailman-users@python.org/
