Hi all,

If it's of any use to anyone here is a script that may make it easier to automate list deletion/creation. It is run from cron every 5 minutes during the day on one of our customer sites. It automatically regenerates a second aliases file (for postfix in the case, but easily changed for sendmail etc.) from the lists directory. The machine has approximately 2000 lists and the load the script adds is negligable.

All the best,

Fergus.

mailman-users-request@python.org wrote:

Completely automatic list creation and removal is dependent on your MTA. Exim users are in the best situation since they can configure Exim to automatically deliver to mailing lists. Postfix users need to do a little bit of set up, but from then on, Postfix will automatically deliver to new lists. Until I get contributions from other MTA users, everything else requires a manual step, so while lists can still be created thru-the-web, the list owner will get an email containing Sendmail aliases style entries that must be installed manually.

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