Cygwin infrastructure assistance, part 2

[Christopher Faylor]

On Wed, Aug 06, 2014 at 12:04:08AM -0500, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
>On 2014-08-05 22:48, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>> Yaakov Selkowitz writes:
>>> The next thing we need help with is mailing list management:
>>>
>>> * receiving cygwin*-owner@ messages,
>>
>> These seem to go to either postmaster AT cygwin.com or
>> postmaster AT sourceware.org, which I think wind up in the same place.  For
>> any given list, look at ~alias/.qmail-LISTNAME-owner to see where the
>> messages go.  Right now I think that all e-mail to postmaster goes just
>> to cgf.  It's a mailing list: /qmail/lists-system/postmaster.  I guess
>> somebody else should get on that list, though I imagine it gets a lot of
>> spam.
>
>$ ezmlm-list /qmail/lists-system/postmaster
>me AT cgf.cx
>
>I have attempted to subscribe to postmaster, but after acking my 
>subscription request I am still not subscribed.  Would my subscription 
>request be stuck in a moderator queue?

>> In general I would not expect the -owner address to get many interesting
>> messages.
>
>Probably true, but occasionally human intervention is required, and it 
>doesn't help us much if cgf is the only person getting them (and who 
>knows for how much longer at that).

I don't recall many cases of needing to be able to deal with a
cygwin-specific issue in postmaster mail.  There probably is a
disproportionate amount of people confused by the concept of not sending
html email but the canned response to that confusion is not
cygwin-specific.

>> ezmlm-list /qmail/lists-sourceware/cygwin
>>
>> Replace "cygwin" with the mailing list you are interested in.
>
>This works for me, but these do not:
>
>> ezmlm-unsub /qmail/lists-sourceware/cygwin joe@foo.com
>> ezmlm-sub /qmail/lists-sourceware/cygwin/deny joe@foo.com
>
>ezmlm-unsub: fatal: unable to open 
>/qmail/lists-sourceware/cygwin-announce/lock: access denied
>
>The lock files are mostly 0644 alias:qmail, except for 
>/qmail/lists-sourceware/cygwin-developers/deny-subscribe/lock and 
>/qmail/lists-sourceware/cygwin-talk/deny/lock which are 0400 root:root. 
>  Is there a way to make these accessible from the cygwin-admin login?

The intent of ezmlm mailing list administration is that everything
should be able to be manipulated via email.  Corinna has been able to
subscribe and unsubscribe people from the cygwin mailing list for years.

http://untroubled.org/ezmlm/ezman/ezman2.html