On Mar 25, 2008, at 2:56 PM, Allen, Geoff wrote: >> Just a quick question, as it's certainly not a deal-breaker: will >> Mailman 2.2 support appending to /etc/{mail}/aliases, and the >> execution of the newaliases command? I understand that there are >> privilege concerns and security questions involved in this, but I'm >> curious to hear if there's a roadmap for this functionality or if it >> is too low-demand to be included. If it's the latter, my feelings >> won't be hurt! I am curious more than anything. > > I do this with a cron job that writes the aliases and runs every 5 > minutes.
See, I thought of that part already... > Here is the script in its entirety: > > ----- begin ----- > #!/bin/sh > > /usr/lib/mailman/bin/genaliases | sed -n '5,$p' >> /etc/mail/mailman-aliases > /usr/bin/newaliases > ----- end ----- > > And I have sendmail read that aliases file with: > > ----- begin ----- > O AliasFile=/etc/mail/aliases, /etc/mail/mailman-aliases > ----- end ----- > > in sendmail.cf. ...but not this part. Nice job! Chris > > > Geoff ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp