Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: >* Steven Jones <steven.jo...@vuw.ac.nz>: > >> uh no, Its done per list when you create the list, so that's lots of >> command line additions, if I had a gui to do it I could allocate the >> work to the helpdesk and not a linux admin. > >Very odd, with Postfix I don't have to do that. Both use BerkeleyDB, >so I wonder why this shouldn't be possible with Sendmail as well... > >http://wiki.list.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4030606
Yes, that FAQ page points to ways that alias generation can be automated for sendmail, in particular the FAQ at <http://wiki.list.org/x/B4Au>. To answer the OP's original question, yes there is a reason. The reason is sendmail's security which won't use aliases in files that are writable by other than root. Thus, you have to use one of the technique's in the FAQ which use either a cron run by root or a sudo command with appropriate entries in /etc/sudoers so the web server can run it. -- Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
