[Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.2: automatic newaliases from GUI listcreation?

[Mark Sapiro]

Chris Waltham wrote:

>Just a quick question, as it's certainly not a deal-breaker: will  
>Mailman 2.2 support appending to /etc/{mail}/aliases, and the  
>execution of the newaliases command? I understand that there are  
>privilege concerns and security questions involved in this, but I'm  
>curious to hear if there's a roadmap for this functionality or if it  
>is too low-demand to be included. If it's the latter, my feelings  
>won't be hurt! I am curious more than anything.


This capability already exists for Postfix in Mailman 2.1. The same
functionality can't be directly implemented for Sendmail because of
sendmail's requirements for ownership and permissions of alias files,
but there are ways to do it for sendmail anyway. See
<http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.049.htp>

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