Re: cygwin-announce problems

[Jason Molenda <jason-swarelist@molenda.com>]

On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 11:42:21PM -0400, Chris Faylor wrote:
> >> Can anyone tell me if there are some kind of problems with the cygwin mailing
> >> list?  I tried to gateway the cygwin-announce list into the cygwin list but
> >> I never see any cygwin-announce email in cygwin.

> >It makes sense if you think about it -- the spam blocker that
> >insists on the list name being in the To or Cc header will block
> >these messages.  

> Oh well.  I was trying to avoid having to remember to do this every time
> we sent email to cygwin-announce.


I just thought of a workaround.  As a parting gift to Jeff Law ;-),
I wrote a replacement for ezmlm's listname-in-to/cc checker.  My
replacement, in addition to being a lot slower, allows you to have
declare multiple valid listnames.  So the ezmlm listname-check for
the cygwin list would be disabled, my listname-checker would be
used in its place (infra/bin/check-for-listname.sh), and both
"cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com" and "cygwin-announce@sourceware.cygnus.com"
would be allowed as valid listnames for the cygwin list.

I think it'd work.  ezmlm might still have some further clever
protections to prevent mailing lists from looping and might detect
that a mailing list note is being sent through another mailing
list.  I don't think I've ever tried to include a list in a list
like this, so I honestly don't know off hand.

In any event, to avoid odd messages from ezmlm, I'd unsubscribe
cygwin@sourceware from the cygwin-announce list right now and wait
a couple of weeks for ezmlm to get the bounces out of its system.
Otherwise cygwin-announce will send ezmlm warnings about 'I had
trouble delivering the following notes ... ' to cygwin and the
cygwin users will roar in confusion.

Jason