8 Create a site-wide mailing list

After you have completed the integration of Mailman and your mail server, you need to create a ``site-wide'' mailing list. This is the one that password reminders will appear to come from, and it is required for proper Mailman operation. Usually this should be a list called mailman, but if you need to change this, be sure to change the MAILMAN_SITE_LIST variable in mm_cfg.py. You can create the site list with this command, following the prompts:

    % bin/newlist mailman

Now configure your site list. There is a convenient template for a generic site list in the installation directory, under srcpng' border='0' height='32' alt='Previous Page' width='32' /> GNU Mailman - Installation Manual

6.2.8 Problems

Mailman will send as many MAIL FROM/RCPT TO as it needs. It may result in more than 10 or 100 messages sent in one connection, which will exceed the default value of Exim's smtp_accept_queue_per_connection value. This is bad because it will cause Exim to switch into queue mode and severely delay delivery of your list messages. The way to fix this is to set Mailman's SMTP_MAX_SESSIONS_PER_CONNECTION (in $prefix/Mailman/mm_cfg.py) to a smaller value than Exim's smtp_accept_queue_per_connection.
Mailman should ignore Exim delay warning messages, even though Exim should never send this to list messages. Mailman 2.1's general bounce detection and VERP