At 6:50 AM +0000 2004-08-13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I, as an unprivleged user, and a member of the mailman group, am supposed to administer this installation. Hopefully without bothering our root user everytime we need to create another list.
I'm expecting to have to create and delegate out about 150 or so lists in the next couple of weeks.
There are standard automatic alias generation tools for use with postfix (see README.POSTFIX), and they have been adapted to work with sendmail as well (see <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.049.htp>).
If you use one of those two MTAs, then this should solve your problem.
How can I automate the necessary interaction with mailman? Will mailman accept emailed commands like majordomo does?
Mailman has a limited e-mail interface. See <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.049.htp>.
Or can I somehow create a ssh tunnel to interact directly with the mailman server? Could I perhaps build a database of subscribe requests that the list server could interact with on a cron job? Are there other ways this might be accomplished?
Mailman is not well-suited to this kind of operation. If you need to go this route, I think the best way would be to use remote execution facilities to use the command-line tools (detailed at <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.009.htp>).
Of course, you could use a variety of ways to get the information from one system to the other, and to have the relevant commands executed on your behalf.
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