[Mailman-Users] Re: Mailman-Users digest, Vol 1 #1317 - 19 msgs

[Fergus Donohue]

Hi all,

If it's of any use to anyone here is a script that may make it easier to
automate list deletion/creation. It is run from cron every 5 minutes
during the day on one of our customer sites. It automatically
regenerates a second aliases file (for postfix in the case, but easily
changed for sendmail etc.) from the lists directory. The machine has
approximately 2000 lists and the load the script adds is negligable. 

All the best,

Fergus. 

mailman-users-request at python.org wrote:
> 
> Completely automatic list creation and removal is dependent on your
> MTA.  Exim users are in the best situation since they can configure
> Exim to automatically deliver to mailing lists.  Postfix users need to
> do a little bit of set up, but from then on, Postfix will
> automatically deliver to new lists.  Until I get contributions from
> other MTA users, everything else requires a manual step, so while
> lists can still be created thru-the-web, the list owner will get an
> email containing Sendmail aliases style entries that must be installed
> manually.
> 

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