Re: cygwin ml's not working?

[Elfyn McBratney <elfyn@emcb.co.uk>]

On Sun, 13 Jul 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 03:08:30PM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> >Elfyn McBratney <elfyn@emcb.co.uk> writes:
> >
> >> > > Me again. :-) When trying to post to cygwin AT cygwin DOT com or
> >> > > cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com I get "no mailbox here by that name", and
> >> > > "no forwarding information" for the latter, from qmail; hostname doesn't seem
> >> > > to matter.
> >> > >
> >> > > Is there something wrong?
> >> >
> >> > I dunno.  I assume that you are receiving a bounce message, since
> >> > qmail does not fail e-mail immediately.  Can you send a complete copy
> >> > of that bounce message including all headers?
> >>
> >> Here's one from earlier
> >
> >Thanks.  It's a mildly amusing problem.  Somebody just added a user
> >named `cygwin' to /etc/passwd.  Because the user `cygwin' exists, the
> >e-mail address `cygwin-apps@sources.redhat.com' is controlled by that
> >user.
> >
> >In effect, adding the user `cygwin' has broken the mailing list named
> >`cygwin', as well as every mailing list which starts with `cygwin-'.
> >
> >There are several ways to fix this, based on qmail's rules:
> >
> >1) Remove the user `cygwin'.
> >2) Change the user `cygwin' to have a zero uid.
> >3) Remove the home directory /home/cygwin.
> >4) Change /home/cygwin so that it is not owned by `cygwin'.
> >
> >Since I don't know why the user `cygwin' was added, I don't know which
> >of these fixes would be best.
>
> I just added the cygwin user earlier today.  When I saw the bug report,
> I realized what had happened and renamed it to something else.

Thanks for the help... There was me thinking I could forget cygwin for
tonight <g>

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