[Mailman-Users] updating aliases file.

[britt]

On Tue, 2 May 2000, Krist van Besien wrote:

> Exim is not an option for me, I need to use sendmail. If there are better
> ways to integrate mailman with sendmail other then having a way to add
> lines to /etc/aliases I'd be glad to learn about them.

here...

run this patch in your mailman/bin directory and you'll have just what
you'll need.  you'll need to run newaliases of course...

*** newlist     Mon Apr 17 20:32:53 2000
--- newlist2    Sat Apr 15 19:09:42 2000
***************
*** 46,52 ****
  
  
  ALIASTEMPLATE = '''
- Entry for aliases file:
  
  ## %(listname)s mailing list
  ## created: %(date)s %(user)s
--- 46,51 ----
***************
*** 115,121 ****
          except Errors.MMBadEmailError:
              usage(1, 'Bad owner email address: ' + owner_mail)
  
! 
          print ALIASTEMPLATE % {
              'listname': listname,
              'list'    : "%-24s" % (listname + ":"),
--- 114,122 ----
          except Errors.MMBadEmailError:
              usage(1, 'Bad owner email address: ' + owner_mail)
  
!         import sys
!         tempout = sys.stdout
!         sys.stdout = open("/etc/aliases", "a")
          print ALIASTEMPLATE % {
              'listname': listname,
              'list'    : "%-24s" % (listname + ":"),
***************
*** 126,131 ****
--- 127,134 ----
              'date'    : time.strftime('%d-%b-%Y', time.localtime(time.time())),
              'user'    : getusername(),
              }
+         sys.stdout.close()
+         sys.stdout = tempout
  
          if len(argv) < 5:
              print ("Hit enter to continue with %s owner notification..."



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