[H-SASIG] Fwd: 12 Mailman moderator request(s) waiting

[Russell Stuart]

On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 19:14 +1000, James Iseppi wrote:
> Mailman will refuse to start if there is not a list named mailman
> present.

Thanks James.  That little piece of info is much appreciated.

I had quick look at the mailman doco.  According to this page:

http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-install/site-list.html

It says mailman requires a site-wide mailing list which is traditionally
called 'mailman'.  It does use the word "requires", so I presume it must
stay.

Looking at my archive, Mailman appears to put all sorts of
mailman-XXX at lists.humbug.org.au aliases in the return path, Errors-To
and other email headers of emails it generates.  Most of these emails
primarily go to the list owners.  So if there are bounces from these
administrative emails they will go to the mailman list.  I presume this
is so a sysadmin could do some forensic analysis on them.  In view of
that my original idea of simply discarding all messages sent to the
mailman list is probably a bad one. 

However, the one email address is doesn't seem to use is
mailman at lists.humbug.org.au.  This happens to be the address all the
spam is sent to.  So, here is a second idea: I get postfix to simply
reject all emails sent to mailman at lists.humbug.org.au. [1]  It seems
that would solve my spam problem without upsetting mailman overly.  Can
anyone suggest a good reason for not doing this?

[1] Being an Exim user myself I have no idea how to do this, but it
seems like it shouldn't be difficult.