[Mailman-Users] mailman aliases

[Todd Pfaff]

On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:

> >>>>> "TP" == Todd Pfaff <pfaff at edge.cis.mcmaster.ca> writes:
> 
>     TP> In case this hasn't been discussed already, I have a
>     TP> suggestion for handling the mailman aliases.
> 
> This approach might allow us (at least for sendmail) to easily add new 
> lists via the Web.  You'd only have to hack ~mailman/aliases -- which
> you'd presumably wouldn't have to be root to do.

You have to set the ownership and permissions of the ~mailman/aliases*
files carefully or sendmail complains about an unsafe dbm file.
I've experimented a bit and found the following works fine:

# ls -alg /home/mailman/aliases*
-rw-rw-r--   1 root     mailman      1869 Jul 29 23:43 /home/mailman/aliases
-rw-r--r--   1 root     mailman      4096 Jul 29 23:44 /home/mailman/aliases.dir
-rw-r--r--   1 root     mailman      2048 Jul 29 23:44 /home/mailman/aliases.pag

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