[K12OSN] Mail data base

[Jim Kronebusch]

On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 11:27:52 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote
> On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 10:11, Shawn Powers wrote:
> > Scott Sherrill wrote:
> > > Management of the lists is all web based 
> > > and straight forward.....Adding/removing addresses is all clicky clicky.
> > 
> > While I'm a huge fan of mailman too -- sometimes adding lists is a pain 
> > in the arse.  With my sendmail install, I need to manually add a big 
> > list of aliases to my /etc/aliases file and run 'newaliases' before the 
> > list will work.
> 
> It's only a problem if you aren't used to command lines and
> editing config files.  The trick is to run the command to add
> the new list in one window while you edit /etc/aliases in
> another.  Then just copy/paste the entries the command generates
> into the other window with a highlight/middle-click.

I simply run the newlist command in the command line.  Then use the Mailman
web administration to manage settings and copy/paste subscribers.  Once you
get the hang of it things are very smooth.  However I do keep a separate
database of subscribers currently as well, then I run queries to generate the
lists to paste in the the web side.  I only do this because of other
information I need to keep track of.  Eventually I would like to move to a
link on the website that shows a list of possible mailing lists to join for
our school and leave it up to the parents to join themselves taking us
completely out of the loop.  Mailman makes this approach possible.  Then there
is no interaction required on the administrators side other than moderation.

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