From scott.murphy at arrow-eye.com Sun Sep 12 21:47:52 2021 From: scott.murphy at arrow-eye.com (Scott Murphy) Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2021 21:47:52 -0400 Subject: [Ocbug] Post checking Message-ID: <783C590F-9B95-4E55-A01E-32C83C4F3230@arrow-eye.com> If this is working, then I?ll restore the archive to the list, then get the website back online. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 833 bytes Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP URL: From scott.murphy at arrow-eye.com Mon Sep 13 13:44:10 2021 From: scott.murphy at arrow-eye.com (Scott Murphy) Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2021 13:44:10 -0400 Subject: [ocbug] Mailing list functional again Message-ID: Not that there was a lot of traffic, but the list has been restored to functionality for anyone who had made attempts to use it. From njt at ayvali.org Mon Sep 13 14:49:54 2021 From: njt at ayvali.org (N.J. Thomas) Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2021 11:49:54 -0700 Subject: [ocbug] Mailing list functional again In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: * Scott Murphy [2021-09-13 13:44:10-0400]: > Not that there was a lot of traffic, but the list has been restored to > functionality for anyone who had made attempts to use it. This used to happen to me a lot, here's how I solved the "I touched something and broke the mailing-list and didn't notice util someone emailed me directly days/week/months later" problem: - for every GNU Mailman site install, I create a "foo-monitoring at foo.example.org" mailing list - turn on the "hidden" bit in Mailman so it doesn't show up in the listings in the web interface - using a user on a host that is separate from the host running Mailman and also is not part of my mail infrastructure (it's important that you are mailing from the outside, just like a normal user would), I setup a cronjob to mail the list every 30 minutes - the mailing list only has one user, and this user forwards all the mail from this list to a host where the mails are dumped into an mbox in /tmp - I setup Nagio NRPE to make sure this file is newer than 30 minutes or so, anything older generates a warning/alert - I setup a cronjob to clean up the mbox in /tmp after some time This works perfectly and has alerted me everytime an OS/Postfix/Mailman upgrade/configuration change breaks my lists. hth, Thomas From scott.murphy at arrow-eye.com Sun Sep 12 21:47:52 2021 From: scott.murphy at arrow-eye.com (Scott Murphy) Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2021 21:47:52 -0400 Subject: [Ocbug] Post checking Message-ID: <783C590F-9B95-4E55-A01E-32C83C4F3230@arrow-eye.com> If this is working, then I?ll restore the archive to the list, then get the website back online. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 833 bytes Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP URL: From scott.murphy at arrow-eye.com Mon Sep 13 13:44:10 2021 From: scott.murphy at arrow-eye.com (Scott Murphy) Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2021 13:44:10 -0400 Subject: [ocbug] Mailing list functional again Message-ID: Not that there was a lot of traffic, but the list has been restored to functionality for anyone who had made attempts to use it. From njt at ayvali.org Mon Sep 13 14:49:54 2021 From: njt at ayvali.org (N.J. Thomas) Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2021 11:49:54 -0700 Subject: [ocbug] Mailing list functional again In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: * Scott Murphy [2021-09-13 13:44:10-0400]: > Not that there was a lot of traffic, but the list has been restored to > functionality for anyone who had made attempts to use it. This used to happen to me a lot, here's how I solved the "I touched something and broke the mailing-list and didn't notice util someone emailed me directly days/week/months later" problem: - for every GNU Mailman site install, I create a "foo-monitoring at foo.example.org" mailing list - turn on the "hidden" bit in Mailman so it doesn't show up in the listings in the web interface - using a user on a host that is separate from the host running Mailman and also is not part of my mail infrastructure (it's important that you are mailing from the outside, just like a normal user would), I setup a cronjob to mail the list every 30 minutes - the mailing list only has one user, and this user forwards all the mail from this list to a host where the mails are dumped into an mbox in /tmp - I setup Nagio NRPE to make sure this file is newer than 30 minutes or so, anything older generates a warning/alert - I setup a cronjob to clean up the mbox in /tmp after some time This works perfectly and has alerted me everytime an OS/Postfix/Mailman upgrade/configuration change breaks my lists. hth, Thomas