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How to disable a list temporarily ?

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How do I disable a list temporarily. I don't want to delete it but disallow access to it (via email or HTTP)

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Mark Sapiro (msapiro) said : 		#1

Just 'chmod 000 lists/LISTNAME', and when you want to re-enable the list, 'chmod 2775 lists/LISTNAME'. If the list has public archives and you want to disable access to them, 'rm archives/public/LISTNAME*'. When you re-enable the list, these symlinks will be automatically recreated when you access the list.

Depending on your MTA, you may want to remove the list's aliases.

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roland aus köln (devzero-c) said : 		#2

this is not needed, as there is "emergency moderation" feature:

http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-admin/node14.html

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