On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 12:10:49PM -0500, David Champion wrote:
> On 2001.05.09, in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Jay R. Ashworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > that you typically have to do some manual and difficult crud like edit
> > > an /etc/aliases file and run `newaliases' (as root!). I've figured a
> > > way around this with Postfix, and of course Exim can be configured to
> > > automatically recognize new mailing lists, so I figured it was time to
> > > do it. I'm hoping that Sendmail, Qmail, and other MTA users amongst
> > > yourselves will contribute the code to glue this together for other
> > > mailers.
> >
> > IMHO, the proper solution for sendmail is for the admin to put an
> > :include: in /etc/aliases pointing to /home/mailman/data/aliases, and
> > rebuild that from scratch against the current list of lists every time
> > that list changes.
>
> I've written a mailer (in the sendmail sense) for Mailman. You can
> define a mailertable entry as:
> server.name.mil mailman:server.name.mil
> And add the mailer to sendmail.cf:
> MMailman, P=/etc/mail/mm-handler, F=rDFMhlqSu, U=mailman:other,
> S=EnvFromL, R=EnvToL/HdrToL,
> A=mm-handler $h $u
> ...and it's all automagical. No more aliases, no more recompiling map
> datbases.
> You can find it in the archives, or I can mail you the most recent
> working version.
I think that would be *perfect*. Mailers is exactly one of Sendmail's
fortes, and very useful if you know how to use them (we do, for various uhm,
'creative systems' :) I'd very much like to test this sometime (but not
soon, unfortunately my other work stuff is swamping me) on our list servers!
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