looking for mailing list manager recommendations

Matthew Saltzman mjs at ces.clemson.edu
Tue Apr 20 02:29:06 UTC 2004


On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Jason Dixon wrote:

> On Apr 19, 2004, at 7:49 PM, Chris W. Parker wrote:

[Heavily trimmed discussion about Mailman]

>                                Note, however, that creating NEW lists
> still requires some manual intervention unless you a) find some
> software that does it for you, or b) you write a simple CGI to take in
> the most basic list information from the customer "admin" and create
> the lists.  This could be probably be done in under 30 lines of perl
> CGI.
>
> Basic new list creation goes as follows (virtual-specific stuff noted
> as such):
>
> 1) $mailman_dir/bin/newlist -q listname at domain.com admin at domain.com
> password (non-interactive)
> 2) Paste the aliases output into your /etc/aliases
> 3) If using virtual domains with Postfix, append the virtual domain to
> the new aliases in /etc/aliases
> 4) Rebuild your aliases.db with "postalias /etc/aliases" (postfix) or
> "makemap hash /etc/aliases < /etc/aliases" (sendmail).
> 5) If using virtual domains with Postfix, create a virtual alias that
> points the alias to the local server.  Looks something like this for
> the example in #1:
>
> listname at domain.com -> listname.domain.com at localhost.domain.com
>
> 6) Reload your MTA configuration to enforce the changes immediately.
> "postfix reload" (postfix) or "kill -HUP `cat /var/run/sendmail.pid`
> (sendmail) or "service sendmail restart" (sendmail on Red Hat).

Newer Mailman versions support newlist creation via a Web page.  Most of
these steps are handled automatically, and you don't need to be root.
There's a special password for "list creator" access to this page.

>
> HTH.
>
> --
> Jason Dixon, RHCE
> DixonGroup Consulting
> http://www.dixongroup.net
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		Matthew Saltzman

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