more on: oh, and ultra simple mail aliases

2001-01-18 Thread hawk 

ack.  I set cc rather than reply-to on that.  Please re cc me if you
replied to the last message; when my digests break, I get the rest of 
the message where it broke, but none from after that point . . .

Also, I can't successfully run newaliases:
fac13:/etc/mail# newaliases 
Cannot open hash database /etc/mail/aliases.db: Invalid argument
WARNING: cannot open alias database /etc/mail/aliases
Cannot create database for alias file /etc/mail/aliases

hawk

fixed: more on: oh, and ultra simple mail aliases

2001-01-18 Thread hawk 

hmm.  it seems that the aliases work, and the error messages are
extraneous.  I can live with that :)

hawk

ultra simple mail aliases

2001-01-18 Thread Richard E. Hawkins 

argh.  This is a RTFM problem, but I can't figure out which FM T R . . .

I need to set up trivially simple mailing aliases.  Particularly,
I want a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to go to a list
of specified addresses (just 4, typically) at other sites.  (This is
for communication between teams in my law class).

I thought that it was /etc/mh/MailAliases or /etc/mail/aliases,
but these don't seem to be working.  I know that I've done this
before . . .

(I've set the reply-to to both me and the list, as I'm getting a broken
digest or two every day . . .)

thanks

hawk

Re: ultra simple mail aliases

2001-01-18 Thread kmself 
on Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 11:39:33AM -0500, Richard E. Hawkins ([EMAIL 
PROTECTED]) wrote:
 
 argh.  This is a RTFM problem, but I can't figure out which FM T R . . .
 
 I need to set up trivially simple mailing aliases.  Particularly,
 I want a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to go to a list
 of specified addresses (just 4, typically) at other sites.  (This is
 for communication between teams in my law class).

You can configure /etc/mail/aliases.  However, this provides for one-way
aliases only (outbound), unless the sending box is generally reachable.
E.g.:  most dialup boxen aren't mailservers.

If you have access to a server, mailman is a good list management
server, recommended.

There are also a large number of sites which will host your discussion
for you.  For an academic group, I'd think this would be available
through your school.

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