[Mailman-Users] weird message in /var/log/mailman/vette file

[Masaharu Kawada]

Hello Mark-san,

Thank you very much for your help. Could I ask one more thing that is
regarding one of your answers?

>You can add 'root at ...' as a member of the mailman list the same way you
>add members to any other list, but I don't recommend that.

Why don't you recommend that? I just make sure the reason. Could you kindy
answer this, please?

Sincerely,


Mark Sapiro wrote:
> Masaharu Kawada wrote:
>   
>> A following message keep appearing in /var/log/mailman/vette
>> at around 12:00 every day.
>>
>> ---
>> Mailman post from root at example.co.jp held, message-id=<20100
>> 42900100.xxxxxx0 at example.co.jp>: Post by non-member to a members-only list
>> ---
>>
>> This seems to be related to a cron job(senddigest), so, one way to make this
>> stopped is to comment out the line regarding senddigest in
>> /usr/lib/mailman/cron/cron.in.
>>
>> #0 12 * * * mailman /usr/lib/mailman/cron/senddigests
>>
>> However, what is that member to a members-only list? If I remember right,
>> the 'mailman' mailing list created by default, and then administrator's
>> password
>> was asked to the list.
>>
>> How could I add a member to a members-only list to stop that message?
>>     
>
>
> Mailman's cron/senddigests runs as the mailman user and is encountering
> an error and producing output. This output is being mailed by crond to
> 'mailman' and is being delivered to the 'mailman' list. It is from
> 'root at ...'. The mailman list in turn is set with
> generic_nonmember_action = Hold and 'root at ...' is not a member of the
> mailman list, so the 'post' is held for moderator approval and the
> hold is logged in the vette log.
>
> You need to go to the admindb interface of the mailman list and see
> some of these posts and find and fix the problem in senddigests.
>
> You can add 'root at ...' as a member of the mailman list the same way you
> add members to any other list, but I don't recommend that.
>
> I recommend you do the following:
>
> 1) Set the 'mailman' list's generic_nonmember_action to Accept.
>
> 2) Make sure the mailman site admin is a non-digest member of the
> 'mailman' list with delivery enabled.
>
> and optionally,
>
> 3)Add 'MAILTO=the_address_of_the_mailman_site_admin' to Mailman's
> crontab so errors will be mailed directly to the admin instead of to
> the list. 
>
>