[Mailman-Users] Mailman does everything except send mail

[Jörn Nettingsmeier]

Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 2002-05-18 at 00:21, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:
> >
> > >>>>> "AvB" == Adrian von Bidder <avbidder at fortytwo.ch> writes:
> >
> >     AvB> Question on that: can mailman be configured to run without
> >     AvB> cron? I have on my home system a very low traffic list, and
> >     AvB> it's a bit a cpu waste to run a cron job when I have only 2
> >     AvB> or 3 messages every few days.
> >
> > Sure.  cron's not doing anything special exception making sure a
> > particular program is run periodically.  You can run cron/qrunner
> > manually whenever you like, although you probably have to run it like
> 
> Yes, yes. In other words: mailman currently has no means to trigger the
> qrunner on message receipt which would imo be a sensible solution for
> low-traffic systems.

i have played around a little with my local sendmail, and i think
something like the following *might* work.
the idea is to have sendmail trigger qrunner whenever a message comes
in. you can use multiple aliases, so why not use multiple scripts as
recipients ?

in /etc/aliases
your-list: |/var/lib/mailman/mail/wrapper post your-list  
|/usr/local/bin/qrun

where qrun is
#!/bin/bash
sleep 60 # give sendmail the chance to process the first alias
/your/path/to/qrunner


please correct me if this is bullshit...


best,

jörn