cron failures are sent to mailman list

[Wheirman]

When a cronjob fails (e.g. nightly_gzip has a
permission problem), the output is sent to
mailman@localhost. However, mailman is by default a
mailing list (at least it was on my older Debian
system, I copied the /var/mailman/lists from there to a
new Fedora Core 3 installation). Since root is not on
the mailman list, I get "message awaits moderator
approval" messages.
Shouldn't the error go straight to root? For instance,
with a MAILTO=root directive in /etc/cron.d/mailman ?

[http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1111321&group_id=103&atid=100103]

[Shub-users (shub-users)]

This sounds like an OS/distribution-specific issue. I get no such
problems with Mailman on FreeBSD (for ntp.isc.org), nor with Mailman
on Debian (for python.org).

Feel free to try out your suggested change, and if it works, then
recommend that to the people at Redhat for inclusion in future versions
of their RPM.

[Tokio Kikuchi (tkikuchi)]

You should change the mailman list privacy policy in
admin/privacy/sender that anyone can post to this site list.
ie. genric_nonmember_action to "accept."