Re: [Savannah-users] delete or recover email list admin pass

[Eric Chadbourne]

All fixed.

Thanks Karl!

On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 6:45 PM, Karl Berry <address@hidden> wrote:
>     I created an email list for my project but didn't use it much.
>
> Do you want to just disable the list (themnemeproject-general I assume)
> entirely?
>
>     I'm no longer able to recover my password.
>
> It's not possible to recover the list administrator password, anyway,
> only the password as a subscriber.
>
> I'll reset the admin pw and send you separate email with it.
>
>     It says my email isn't valid.
>
> Baffled by that.
>
>     The reason I ask is I just received a request to moderate some spam
>     somebody posted to it.
>
> Not to worry, it's already been deleted.  By default, mailing lists
> created through savannah, including yours I see, are set up to use an
> antispam system that deletes junk asychronously
> (http://listhelper.nongnu.org).  So you don't need to worry about
> messages telling you about spam.  Personally, I filter them with a
> procmail pattern like this:
> ^Subject: confirm [a-f0-9]{40}
>
> Alternatively, if you don't want to get the "immediate" notifications at
> all, we can use a placeholder address for the administrator -- you'd
> still be able to log in to mailman and do whatever with the list, if you
> want to keep it.
>
> Best,
> Karl
>
>



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