[Mailman-Users] Sendmail - Aliases

Stephen J. Turnbull turnbull at sk.tsukuba.ac.jp
Sat Feb 20 08:14:40 CET 2010


bob 001 writes:

 > I created the mailing list and didn't have to do it.
 > Postfix configuration is pointing to mailman alias file which DOES
 > gets updated with additional aliases when we create the new list.
 > Am I misunderstanding something?

Yes.  Steven is using the original Sendmail which doesn't permit that
to be done so easily.  This is due to a completely different design.
Postfix, starting a new design from scratch, benefited from the long
experience with Sendmail, but it's not easy to change an old workhorse
like Sendmail.



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