On Mon, Feb 2, 2026 at 2:27 PM Christian Schneider < christian.schneider@tu-dortmund.de> wrote:
Hello dear Mailman Team,
I scanned through the web interface of my mailman instance... and I did not find an option to disable a list temporarily ("sending" and "access to web interface")... This might come in handy when a list is abused for sending spams or when a list owner wants his/her list to be removed... Instead of removing the list instantly I would disable it for three months first... (You never know with users... ;-) ) Preferably I would backup the list (settings and members) and the archives, but as seen in the discussion there is actually no backup mechanism for lists...
Is there an option to disable a list (except from resetting passwords and remove/disable mail aliases)?
To disable access to Postorius, you can achieve that using the web server. To disable mail processing, you do that by disabling the mail aliases or just redirect a list address to /dev/null.
If not I'd like to hand this in as a feature request... xD
I always see the Devs say that you do that by creating an issue in gitlab.
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