Re: Mailman question

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Thaks for the reply Barry.
I just tried creating a new list (via the web interface) and it didn't give me any info that I could see. Also I have no /var/mailman/mail/wrapper file - it doesn't seem to be contained in the RPM.


Rob

Barry L. Kline wrote:

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






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