[Mailman-Users] newlist, rmlist, sendmail alias management

[J C Lawrence]

On Thu, 2 Dec 1999 23:07:16 -0500 (EST) 
Todd Pfaff <pfaff at edge.cis.mcmaster.ca> wrote:

> On Thu, 2 Dec 1999 claw at kanga.nu wrote:

>> In fact, there's an Exim stanza wandering about right now done by
>> Nick Moffit that avoids the need entirely for an alias file for
>> MailMan, but rather has Exim observe the presence of a
>> ~mailman/lists/<listname>/config.db file and therefor determine
>> that the list exists and all the addresses it needs.  Quite a
>> cute job really.  No alias file to update, but idential
>> operation.

> can be done similarly for sendmail...

...details ellided...

Actually that's not the same thing as you are piping the alias
output from newlist into an alias file for MailMan:

> cd ~mailman ./bin/newlist listname owner-email-address password 1
> | tail +4 > aliases newaliases

Tis is not what I'm writing about about above.  I'm writing about
having no alias file at all, about there not being a file anywhere
on the system that lists the mail aliased for the various lists,
about there being no file that encludes lines like the following:

ie, with this system you can do the following:

  # newlist listname

and then immediately have the list live and supported under your MTA
without editing a single file or pasting or piping the aliases into
anything.

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