On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:
"TP" == Todd Pfaff <pfaff@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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