re Mailman

> John R. Willis said:
>From gusano at radix.net  Thu Jun 29 11:10:18 2000
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 11:10:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: "John R. Willis" <gusano at radix.net>
To: George Dinwiddie <gdinwiddie at min.net>
Subject: Re: [alberg30] Digest Number 644
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MailMan provides several scripts for list management (add/remove members,
create/remove lists, etc).  Once you have MailMan installed, you can
create a new list by running bin/newlist from within the MailMan
directory.

newlist creates all the data files, sets up the list config and then
outputs several lines for the /etc/aliases file to handle the actual mail
redirection to MailMan (assuming you are running on a Unix box).

You'll probably need root access inorder to add the lines to /etc/aliases
(depends upon the system config).  If you don't have root access and you
are only setting up one list, you can probably get the SysAdmin to add the
lines for you.

Feel free to let me know if I can be of any help.

--John Willis



On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, George Dinwiddie wrote:

> Thanks, John.  I probably won't get to that until next week, at the
> earliest.  I'm still tweaking some procmail recipes to provide email
> forwarding capability, and I don't want to wear out my welcome with
> the support people.
> 
> One quick question: I've found a bunch of stuff (well, enough, I think)
> about setting Mailman options, but I haven't yet found how to create
> a new list.  Do you know how to do that?
> 
>  - George
> 
> > John R. Willis said:
> > 
> > Hi George,
> > 
> > John Willis here - we've used MailMan for several mailing lists here and
> > have had pretty good success with it.  If I remember correctly, it is
> > heavily dependant upon Python - which took a bit of tweaking to get
> > working correctly under Solaris.
> > 
> > Anyway, if you need a hand setting anything up, feel free to let me know.  
> > While I don't know much about HTML, give me the parts for a Sparc and the
> > source for Apache and I can build a web server in my sleep.
> > 
> > --John Willis
> > #435 Jubilant
> 
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>   George Dinwiddie                                  gdinwiddie at min.net
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  George Dinwiddie                                  gdinwiddie at min.net
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