Disable all mail capabilities
I have a decades old list that was abandoned on my server. I upgraded it to mailman3 but it never came back to life. It is causing me some grief. I want to keep the archives up but totally disable any mail capabilities. I have turned off mail for the domain but I still get 'crap' that tries to relay. I've manually tried to remove stuff from the transport tables in Postfix but I still get mail. I'm not sure where the problem lies.
If I can't stop this I'll have to remove the list entirely which includes the archives. I really wish to leave the archives up. Any idea on how I can remove the mail capabilities and leave the rest?
Thank You.
I have a decades old list that was abandoned on my server. I upgraded it to mailman3 but it never came back to life. It is causing me some grief. I want to keep the archives up but totally disable any mail capabilities. I have turned off mail for the domain but I still get 'crap' that tries to relay. I've manually tried to remove stuff from the transport tables in Postfix but I still get mail. I'm not sure where the problem lies.
If I can't stop this I'll have to remove the list entirely which includes the archives. I really wish to leave the archives up. Any idea on how I can remove the mail capabilities and leave the rest?
Thank You.
On Fri, Feb 2, 2024 at 8:31 PM Hope Less via Mailman-users < mailman-users@mailman3.org> wrote:
I have a decades old list that was abandoned on my server. I upgraded it to mailman3 but it never came back to life. It is causing me some grief. I want to keep the archives up but totally disable any mail capabilities. I have turned off mail for the domain but I still get 'crap' that tries to relay. I've manually tried to remove stuff from the transport tables in Postfix but I still get mail. I'm not sure where the problem lies.
If I can't stop this I'll have to remove the list entirely which includes the archives. I really wish to leave the archives up. Any idea on how I can remove the mail capabilities and leave the rest?
Thank You.
Not sure how Postfix does things, but in Exim I could redirect an address to the null bucket and forget about it. I could also just make a special purpose router to handle a particular address in any evil way :-)
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On 2024-02-02 20:37:31 +0300 (+0300), Odhiambo Washington wrote: [...]
Not sure how Postfix does things, but in Exim I could redirect an address to the null bucket and forget about it. I could also just make a special purpose router to handle a particular address in any evil way :-)
Also an Exim user, but for retired lists we add :fail: aliases with detailed error messages for those list addresses so that our MTA rejects any attempted posts at RCPT TO but still supplies a reasonable explanation to users who look at the notification they receive from their own relays.
Jeremy Stanley
On 2/2/24 09:30, Hope Less via Mailman-users wrote:
If I can't stop this I'll have to remove the list entirely which includes the archives. I really wish to leave the archives up. Any idea on how I can remove the mail capabilities and leave the rest?
You can remove the list and keep the archives. The mailman remove
command will remove the list and leave the HyperKitty or other archive
intact. However, if the HyperKitty archive is not public, it will not be
accessible to anyone but superusers without the list.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
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