[Mailman-Developers] Web interface for creating new mailing lists

[Matt Davis]

On 14 Jun 2000, Hrvoje Niksic wrote:

> What I have in mind is a user/maintainer-friendly web interface that
> allows you to open new mailing lists, delete the existing ones, stuff
> like that.  It would store its state information somewhere in the
> mailman directories, and write out sendmail-(or whatever)-style
> aliases to a system file instructed to be read by the MTA -- say
> /etc/mail/mailman-aliases.

The newlist program could be hacked up to pipe thoes sendmail aliases to a
mailman writeable alias file like you mentioned above..  But the problem I
ran into was getting sendmail to reread thoes aliases.  As far as I could
see, only root could run 'newaliases'.

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