[Mailman-Users] unclaimed action of mailman

Masaharu Kawada mkawada at redhat.com
Wed Mar 10 04:25:51 CET 2010


Mark-san,

Thank you very much for your response.

I got better understanding on what the non-list-member is.

Best Regards,

Mark Sapiro wrote:
> Masaharu Kawada wrote:
>   
>> One thing to make sure, do you mean that a non-list-member is the 
>> mailman user?
>>     
>
>
> Yes and no. The sender of the post is not a member of the list. Mailman
> looks at more than one thing when determining if the sender is a
> member. In this case, what Mailman looks at is the From: header which
> according to the vette log is root at example.com and also at the
> envelope sender which according to the Postfix log is
> mailman at example.com, so neither of those addresses are list members
> and if either one was a member, the post would be handled as if from
> that member.
>
>
>   
>> And the list of the administrator is the mailman user as well?
>>     
>
>
> The list administrator is whatever address(es) is/are in the 'owner'
> attribute of the list. I have no idea what, if any, these might be.
>
>   



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