Hostnames
Hosted on
Administrative contact
- For problems concerning a specific mailing-list, please contact the individual administrator reported on in the mailing-list summary page
- Technical contact for Mailman and general sugarlabs.org email routing: postmaster AT sugarlabs DOT org
Sysadmins
For non-emergency calls, preferably send email to the administrative contact.
Recipes
Adding a new a mailing list
- Create the list:
sudo /var/lib/mailman/bin/newlist --urlhost=lists.sugarlabs.org --emailhost=lists.sugarlabs.org LISTNAME
- Send additional instructions to list administrator
I created the new list LISTNAME@lists.sugarlabs.org. You are the list admin, and should have received a welcome message with your admin password. You can share this role with others, if you wish, or nominate one or more moderators. Feel free to make any configuration changes you need. In particular, you may want to add a meaningful summary and description of what this list is about. Please, notify systems@ if you change security or privacy related settings.
Change virtual host of a list
bin/withlist -l -r fix_url bolivia -u lists2.ole.org
Change a parameter on all lists
echo "nondigestable = True" >bar for l in `bin/list_lists -b`; do bin/config_list -i bar -v $l ; done rm bar
Disabling digests for all users
Create a nodigests.py with this content:
from Mailman import mm_cfg
def nodigests(m):
for addr in m.getMembers():
if m.getMemberOption(addr, mm_cfg.Digests) == True:
print "turning off digests for " + addr
m.setMemberOption(addr, mm_cfg.Digests, 0)
m.Save()
m.Unlock()
Then, execute:
bin/withlist -l -r nodigests -a
Migrating lists from one host to another
To migrate lists from solarsail to sunjammer, I did the following:
- Lower TTL for lists.sugarlabs.org to 30 minutes
- Copy over config before cut-off:
ssh solarsail cd /var/lib/mailman/lists/ rsync -aP aslo bugs colombia community-news dextrose fourthgrademath gsoc iaep italia marketing slobs soas somosazucar sugar-desarrollo sugar-devel sugar-reports systems systems-logs root@sunjammer:/var/lib/mailman/lists/ cd /var/lib/mailman/archives/private rsync -aP aslo* bugs* colombia* community-news* dextrose* fourthgrademath* gsoc* iaep* italia* marketing* slobs* soas* somosazucar* sugar-desarrollo* sugar-devel* sugar-reports* systems* systems-logs* root@sunjammer:/var/lib/mailman/archives/private/
- Copy over the lists.sugarlabs.org bits from the Postfix configuration (
/etc/postfix/main.cfand/etc/postfix/transport)
- Test admin pages and archives on the new site (hint: set the new IP for lists.sugarlabs.org in /etc/hosts)
- Announce downtime on all affected lists
- Stop mailman on solarsail
- Switch over DNS records (with default TTL values)
- Remove mailman transport map from solarail, leaving the relay, so that anything@lists.sugarlabs.org gets sent to sunjammer
- Restart mailman on solarsail