Further to what I said on 2nd Aug, I have now adapted the 2.1b2 contrib mm-handler to work with MM 2.0.x and I'm now using it instead of an aliases file in conjunction with Sendmail on our mailing list server. Works OK and will put me in better shape for the switchover to MM 2.1.
In addition to changes in the Perl mailer I also had to make some changes in the m4 macros used to generate the sendmail.cf to get the mailertable to work as planned. This may just be an artifact of the sendmail m4 files installed by Suse 7.3 that I'm running on the machine. Or it could be due to my limited knowledge of Sendmail and its configuration and hence be a stupid change. If, having looked at the 2.1b2 contrib mm-handler and in particular perused the readme for it, anybody is interested in a copy of the Perl mailer code changes I made so that it will work with 2.0.x or the Sendmail m4 macro hacks then just ask. Its definitely not rocket science and comes with no warranty but it might save you some time. -------on 2nd Aug 2002 I originally said: As a possible alternative, there is a contribution in the contrib folder of the MM 2.1b2 release ($build/contrib/mm-handler) whose use obviates extending Sendmail's aliases database every time a new Mailman list is added or an old one removed. It is a Sendmail Mailer (its a Perl script) which calls the Mailman programs to handoff mail from Sendmail to Mailman. It is "driven" Mailman's list "database". Hence it dynamically starts delivery to new lists and stops delivery to removed lists without any need to maintain a separate Sendmail aliases database. I cannot see any reason why this should work just as well with MM 2.0.x as with MM 2.1.x; indeed I'm going to switch over to using it on my production MM 2.0.13 installation if I can first install it successfully on my test 2.1b2 installation. At 15:39 01/08/2002 -0700, Gary Verhulp wrote: >newlist -o /etc/aliases : newaliases > >I think this is what you are asking for > >Gary > > >Larry Guest wrote: > >>Is there a better way to handle the mailman aliases instead of just editing >>my /etc/aliases file and running newaliases. >>When I get to over 200 lists its going to be a nightmare file. >> >>Thanks ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/
