[Mailman-Users] Mailmanctl probelm

[Richard Barrett]

At 19:12 20/03/2003, Bob Franklin wrote:
>On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Kory Wheatley wrote:
>
> > I just upgraded to mailman 2.1.1 from mailman 2.0.13. The lists and
> > everything converted fine and the web server displays everything
> > properly. The problem I'm having is when I startup "mailmanctl" I get
> > the following error "Site list is missing mailman".  What is configured
> > wrong to cause this error.

See the last two bullet point under heading "4. Final system set-up" in the 
INSTALL file of the Mailman release for what and why.

>It's the list which password reminders and other periodic things are sent
>out as.  You can override it with MAILMAN_SITE_LIST in your mm_cfg.py file
>- but you still need a list for this.
>
>Just make a new list called 'mailman' and it will all work (e.g. 'newlist
>mailman mailman-owner at yoursite.com N-E-OPwd').
>
>What I'm unsure about is what should be done with this list - should it be
>configured in a certain way or whatever?  I guess it's just required so
>Mailman can have a valid sending address and can capture bounces, etc. in
>the usual way.
>
>   - Bob
>
>
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>  Bob Franklin <r.c.franklin at reading.ac.uk>          +44 (0)118 378 6630
>  Systems and Communications, IT Services, The University of Reading, UK