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@xxxxxxxxxx admin@xxxxxxxxxx > 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@xxxxxxxxxx -> listname.domain.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > 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 > > > > > -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
