Re: Cygwin ml's not working?

[Ian Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com>]

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.

Ian