[conspire] Just in case anyone mentioned problems with the list

[Rick Moen]

If you or anyone you know attempted to subscribe or unsubscribe from
this mailing list during the past month, there would have been a
software problem:  Following an upgrade to Mailman 2.1.x, the SMTP
mailer software (Exim) was for about a few weeks unable to process its
admin requests (subscribe, unsubscribe, leave, join, confirm, etc.), 
because I didn't know that exim.conf needed manual hacking -- again.

In case anyone cases, there _is_ a standard, stable interface between
mailing list manager programs (such as Mailman) and mail transport
agents (such as Exim):  It requires pasting a bunch of mail aliases
manually into /etc/aliases every time you create a new list and removing
them when you discontinue it.  However, there's a much nicer way of
running things, if the MTA is Exim:  You can put some fixed-content
lines into exim.conf so that Exim thereafter reads Mailman's
configuration directly.  

But, of course, the Mailman maintainers never said _that_ interface to
MTAs would remain stable, and, alas, it changed with the 2.0.x to 2.1.x
upgrade, which fact I missed.  I _think_ I've fixed it completely, now
-- with the minor exception that new subscription requests get _two_ 
confirmation-request e-mails, instead of the one they should.  (The user
can reply to either one, and I've confirmed that it works.)  I'm trying
to chase that glitch down, but it doesn't seem to matter much.


Next CABAL meeting will be a week from this coming Saturday -- the 14th.
See y'all then!

-- 
Cheers,                            Ceterum censeo, Caldera delenda est.
Rick Moen
rick at linuxmafia.com