At 21:51 29/01/2003, Jon Carnes wrote:
If the MTA is sendmail then there is an option of using a sendmail mailer to deliver to Mailman, if the only mail aliases on the server are the small number of standard local aliases, e.g. postmaster, and those for Mailman lists. If the machine is also hosting aliases for individual users then forget I posted this.If you can get shell access to the server you can use the ~mailman/bin/genaliases command to generate the aliases for your created lists. You could simply redirect the output of that command into a local aliases file and then include that aliases file in your MTA's list of aliases that it checks.Jon Carnes
MM 2.1 has the mm-handler contrib which is a sendmail mailer implemented in Perl. There is also a Python implementation available which I have posted as MM patch #644810 on sourceforge. Note that the Perl contrib isn't entirely bullet-proof, unless the author has recently fixed an issue I raised a while back.
Using these sendmail mailers can completely eliminate maintenance of mail aliases on a list server. Create the list with MM through the web GUI and its ready to go. The downside is some hassle getting sendmail setup right and I wouldn't rate this as a job for a sendmail novice unless he is a persistent one like me. But once that is done, no alias maintenance hassle.
I started out using the Perl contrib (originally with my own modifications to work with MM 2.0.13 rather than 2.1) but now use the Python version on a dedicated list server machine and its backup, which are currently hosting over 450 fairly lightly loaded lists. The list population is fairly dynamic and the use of the sendmail mailer works well for me.
On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 06:24, Will Nordmeyer wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using mailman 2.1 on a Cobalt RAQ3 and trying to use the web > interface to create a list. > > It creates the list, but doesn't add any entries to either the aliases > file or the virtusertable. It also doesn't provide a list of what > entries need to be added. > > It doesn't seem that I have everything configured right but don't see > anything in the INSTALL doc about the settings. > > Can someone help please?
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