Simple Mailing List with Sendmail
Hi, I am experimenting with a simple mailing list setup for some (15 - 20) of my students, i.e. I put a line like this maths: user1, user2, user3, ..., /var/mail_archive/maths into my /etc/mail/aliases . The last entry produces a kind of archive file. Does anyone know an - equally simple - method to exclude/block everyone else from using this list? Of course, Sendmail users different from maths shouldn't be affected. Thanks and regards, Uli. * * Peter Ulrich Kruppa - Wuppertal - Germany * * ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Simple Mailing List with Sendmail
From: P.U.Kruppa Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2006 7:40 AM Subject: Simple Mailing List with Sendmail Hi, I am experimenting with a simple mailing list setup for some (15 - 20) of my students, i.e. I put a line like this maths: user1, user2, user3, ..., /var/mail_archive/maths into my /etc/mail/aliases . The last entry produces a kind of archive file. Does anyone know an - equally simple - method to exclude/block everyone else from using this list? Of course, Sendmail users different from maths shouldn't be affected. Thanks and regards, Uli. * * Peter Ulrich Kruppa - Wuppertal - Germany * * You may want to look at Mailman: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/mail/mailman/pkg-descr It sets up rather easily, is well documented, has a good mailing list/support. And it is very grainular in it's possible setups, allowing you to do just about anything you wish. Best, Jon freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Simple Mailing List with Sendmail
Hi, Unless you can find a way to keep anyone else from sending mail to this list, I don't reccomend doing this. We tried this several years ago as a way to send an email to all of our ISP customers at once and quickly discovered that if one (or more) computer on the list had a virus then everyone on the list started receiving virus containing email. Now, of course, we stop viruses at the server level before they reach the mail boxes but even so, you can see how problems can crop up doing a mailing list this way. There are better ways. Someone mentioned Mailman. Also, do your students pop their mail? If so, do you use Qpopper as your POP3 server? If you do, you might look at Qpopper's bulletins feature. That is how we solved this problem. Lisa Casey - Original Message - From: P.U.Kruppa To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2006 7:40 AM Subject: Simple Mailing List with Sendmail Hi, I am experimenting with a simple mailing list setup for some (15 - 20) of my students, i.e. I put a line like this maths: user1, user2, user3, ..., /var/mail_archive/maths into my /etc/mail/aliases . The last entry produces a kind of archive file. Does anyone know an - equally simple - method to exclude/block everyone else from using this list? Of course, Sendmail users different from maths shouldn't be affected. Thanks and regards, Uli. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
