Wow! I'm impressed. Once past the initial hurdle of the vsnprintf problem and Solaris 2.5, I had mailman installed and working in less that an hour. Beautiful!
In case this hasn't been discussed already, I have a suggestion for handling the mailman aliases.
The INSTALL file says:
- Add aliases for `mailman' and `owner-mailman' to the system's
mail alias database. These aliases should point to whoever is
ultimately responsible for the Mailman installation. Here are
instructions for those running sendmail:
1. su to root.
2. Assuming your email is fred@flintstone.com, add the following
lines to the file /etc/aliases:
mailman: fred@flintstone.com
mailman-owner: mailman
3. Some versions of sendmail require you to run the program
'newaliases' explicitly.I did this a little differently:
- add to /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
O AliasFile=/home/mailman/aliases
- create the /home/mailman/aliases dbm files cd /home/mailman
- edit aliases and add mailman and mailman-owner alias entries as above touch aliases.dir aliases.pag chown root aliases* chgrp mailman aliases*
- run newaliases and restart sendmail
When adding a new list:
/home/mailman/bin/newlist list-name list-admin-address admin-password 1 >> /home/mailman/aliases
then you just have to edit the aliases file to remove the extra junk output by newlist (but this could be suppressed when the immediate flag is used) and run newaliases.
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