[Mailman-Users] Lost admin password/aliases

[Ben Burnett]

On Monday 15 October 2001 01:37 pm, Jon Carnes wrote:
> > So my questions are:
> > 1) How can I recover/reset the administrative password?
>
> You can reset the password by using ~mailman/bin/mmsitepass
> This will let you set a site-wide password that is good for administering
> any lists.
>
> > 2) How can I regenerate the aliases for the lists Mailman manages?
>
> The aliases are all of the form:
>
> ## ebulletin mailing list
> ## created: 19-Jan-2001 craige
> ebulletin:               "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper post ebulletin"
> ebulletin-admin:         "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner ebulletin"
> ebulletin-request:       "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd ebulletin"
> ebulletin-owner:         ebulletin-admin
>
> Be sure that the path to "wrapper" is correct (~mailman/mail/wrapper), and
> that you have a link to that file in your /etc/smrsh directory (if you use
> Sendmail and have smrsh turned on).
>

Don't forget to also add the aliases:

mailman: you at buckstopshere.com
mailman-owner: mailman

to catch any site admin related email.

- Ben