Thanks,
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lindsay Haisley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "GIC MLs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 2:36 PM
Subject: Re: New Mailing List w/ ezmlm
> > Ok, setting up under alias is what I want.
> >
> > I tried to do this by su'ing to 'alias', but was not able to su, as the
> > shell for 'alias' is '/nonexistent'.
>
> Give the alias account a shell. Edit /etc/passwd (as root) and set the
> shell for the account to /bin/bash.
Problem was, I was editing /etc/passwd with vi and then wondering why it
would not give me a shell when I went to su to alias.
After editing with vipw instead, I can now su to alias...
> > This worked for the most part.
> > Now, in ~/alias, I have
> >
> > lrwx------ 1 root qmail 34 Feb 6 11:02 .qmail-info@ ->
> > /usr/local/qmail/alias/info/editor
> > The files to which the links point are chown alias.qmail , but the links
> > themselves are root.qmail . Is that ok?
>
> I would just have made a single file, ~alias/.qmail-info containing the
> single line
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> I'm not sure why you went to the trouble of setting up these symlinks, or
> what /usr/local/qmail/alias/info/manager and the other files are at the
ends
> of the symlinks. What kind of delivery instructions are there in
> /usr/local/qmail/alias/info/editor for mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]?
>
> If you're going to start putting symlinks in ~alias you might as well give
> the alias account a valid shell and build the mailing list entirely in
> ~alias, as per the ezmlm-make man page. This might solve a lot of
problems.
I did not make any symlinks manually, they must have been generated somehow.
But it sounds like perhaps they aren't supposed to be?
> The instructions in the ezmlm-make man page are pretty explicit. Make
sure
> you su to user alias before you do this, though.
I have been following the ezmlm-make man page studiously (ever since I asked
you how to create a list w/ alias..).
The problem was that I was not able to su to alias.
> If you get too tangled up, tear it all down and rebuild it from scratch.
On my 5th (or 6th or 7th?) try now... :-)
> Read carefully the man page for dot-qmail and the man page for ezmlm-make
> and rebuild things a step at a time, checking your work as you go.
Ok, here is where I am at, starting from scratch:
su to alias:
warabi# su alias
%
Create the list:
%/usr/local/bin/ezmlm/ezmlm-make -AP ~alias/info ~alias/.qmail-info info
nca.or.jp
Subscribe myself at local address:
%/usr/local/bin/ezmlm/ezmlm-sub ~alias/info [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subscribe myself at remote address:
%/usr/local/bin/ezmlm/ezmlm-sub ~alias/info [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Confirm subscriptions:
%/usr/local/bin/ezmlm/ezmlm-list ~alias/info
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
su to shawn:
%su shawn
Password:
%
Send test msg to list:
%echo subject:Alias-TEST | /usr/local/qmail/bin/qmail-inject [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Check mail log:
%tail /var/log/maillog
Feb 6 16:32:35 warabi qmail: 981444755.655805 starting delivery 4071: msg
94719 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Feb 6 16:32:35 warabi qmail: 981444755.656699 status: local 1/10 remote
0/20
Feb 6 16:32:35 warabi qmail: 981444755.694376 delivery 4071: deferral:
ezmlm-send:_fatal:_temporary_qmail-queue_error/
Feb 6 16:32:35 warabi qmail: 981444755.694795 status: local 0/10 remote
0/20
Double-check of /home/shawn/Mailbox also shows nothing...
Hmmmm,
shawn
