On Monday 22 September 2003 05:51 am, Rob Kirkbride wrote: > Apologies if this isn't Redhat specific but I can't see how mailman > picks up emails coming in. > Mailman "picks up" the e-mail via a cute trick. If you create a new mailing list you will, at the conclusion of the script, get a few lines to add to your /etc/aliases file. Look them over... Instead of looking like: usera: userb (which would take usera@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) they look like: listname-admin: "| /var/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner listname" and so on. When your MTA receives an email message it checks the /etc/aliases database and if the e-mail is directed to mailman finds that it should pipe the message through /var/mailman/mail/wrapper. The parameters vary based upon the e-mail address used. Bottom line... there is no mailman daemon per se. Barry -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
