NYCPHP Meetup

[Donald Organ]

i have done all of that already.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ajai Khattri" <ajai at bitblit.net>
To: "NYPHP Talk" <talk at lists.nyphp.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 3:55 PM
Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] Re: Setting up mailman


> Donald Organ wrote:
>
> >sendmail
> >
> When you add the list on the command-line you will see something like
this:
>
> # ./newlist dummy dummy at lists.bway.net password
> To finish creating your mailing list, you must edit your /etc/aliases (or
> equivalent) file by adding the following lines, and possibly running the
> `newaliases' program:
>
> ## dummy mailing list
> dummy:              "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post dummy"
> dummy-admin:        "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman admin dummy"
> dummy-bounces:      "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman bounces dummy"
> dummy-confirm:      "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman confirm dummy"
> dummy-join:         "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman join dummy"
> dummy-leave:        "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman leave dummy"
> dummy-owner:        "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman owner dummy"
> dummy-request:      "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman request dummy"
> dummy-subscribe:    "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman subscribe dummy"
> dummy-unsubscribe:  "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman unsubscribe dummy"
>
> Hit enter to notify dummy owner...
>
>
> So these aliases need to be added to /etc/aliases (or /etc/mail/aliases
> on some servers) so the list can receieve emails on those addresses. You
> then need to rebuild the aliases database (Debian has a Makefile to do
> this, i.e. "cd /etc/mail && make") - other distros may require you to
> run makemap instead. I can't remember if you need to send sendmail a HUP
> or if you need to do a restart for it to use the new aliases.
>
> -- 
> Aj.
> Systems Administrator / Developer
>
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