[nmglug] "Mailman"

a_kaluta akaluta at zianet.com
Tue May 3 13:49:30 PDT 2005


On Tuesday, May 03, 2005 7:43 AM,
Aaron Birenboim wrote.Copy and paste this into the end of /etc/aliases.
> Then run "newaliases" as root.

Aaron, thanks for helping,results pending.Anthony

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Aaron Birenboim" <eunichs at boim.com>
To: "NMGLUG.org mailing list" <nmglug at nmglug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 7:43 AM
Subject: Re: [nmglug] "Mailman"


> On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 14:58, a_kaluta wrote:
>> Dear Glug;
>> Concerning "Mailman"; to complete creating the sitelist I must edit
>> "/etc/mail/aliases (or equivalant)...".
>> Not quite that easy. so using "find / -name 'aliases'" and
>> "locate aliases". and further searches among the dark canyons of
>> "Google".The best choice seems to be "/etc/aliases" ,now that list is the
>> result of running "eximconf.'' upon opening theprogram,the occuring 
>> warning
>> discouraged me from proceeding.
>> The preamble to "/etc/aliases" states that the site admin. may modify the
>> list.
>> So does anyone have any suggestion that I might correctly proceed 
>> entering
>> in "/etc/mailman", items i.e.
>> mailman;   "| /etc/mailman/mail/mail/mailman post mailman".
>> mailman-admin; "| /etc/mailman/mail/mailman admin mailman" ....
>> (my "Mailman location /etc/mailman rather than /usr/local/mailman.)
>> Do any of the membership have experience with "Mailman" and the correct
>> location to populate the
>>  "## mailman mailing list" thank you,Anthony Kaluta
>
> When you make a new mailman list, it should spit out
> several lines of aliases (at least 5-6 of them) to the
> console.
>
> Copy and paste this into the end of /etc/aliases.
> Then run "newaliases" as root.
>
> newaliases is supported by sendmail and postfix.
> I'm not sure about exim, but I wouldn't be suprized
> that exim provides this script just like sendmail
> and postfix.  Otherwise...   man exim...
>
>
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