Hi all! I installed the Sympa mailing list manager on Eskimo. Currently I created one mailing list there - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (to subscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]), and got everything to work. To create a new mailing list follow the instructions in:
http://www.sympa.org/fom-serve/cache/164.html and then run the script ~root/bin/sympa-to-qmail.pl (as root naturally). I should note that I initially tried to install Siesta, but it depends on a lot of modules from CPAN and then discovered that dh-make-perl can only build (and possibly install) one CPAN module at a time, and does not handle dependencies like Ovid.pm does for RPMs. Oded Arbel recommended sympa, and it was an apt-get command away. I hope I like it. Getting it to work required some futzing with it, but things should work pretty well from now on. What's next? I plan to use Sympa for all the new mailing lists. I also plan to gradually convert one mailing list after another from ezmlm to sympa. Then, when everything has been Sympafied, install postfix, create scripts to convert all the E-mail aliases to something it can understand, configure postfix in correspondence to the qmail configuration, and then use postfix instead of qmail and ditch qmail for good. Why? As discussed before - qmail sucks: http://www.shlomifish.org/open-source/anti/qmail/ And now I've lately been losing mail because qmail on Eskimo does not mangle the SPF headers correctly. And achieving that requires a patch: http://www.google.com/search?q=qmail+spf&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 (I can forward here a message from my hostmaster explaining that). Regards, Shlomi Fish --------------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.shlomifish.org/ 95% of the programmers consider 95% of the code they did not write, in the bottom 5%.
