[Mailman-Users] Trouble Creating List Owners

IOhannes m zmoelnig zmoelnig at iem.kug.ac.at
Wed Mar 13 11:16:09 CET 2002


Nick Cockinos wrote:
> Hi,
> Thnaks to those who helped eralier. Your suggestions helped get the list owner 
> aliases into the /etc/aliases file.
> 
> I'm still having trouble understanding this though. When I create a list 
> (./newlist -o /etc/aliases new_list) aliases ar created as follows:
> 
> new_list "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper post new_list" 
> new_list-admin "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner new_list" 
> new_list-request "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd new_list" 
> new_list-owner new_list-admin 
> 
> Should the user new_list-admin be created locally or can it be any valid email 
> address? I have added new_list-admin which accepts mail ok, but what about 
> new_list-request and new_list? 
> Should these be added manually? 
> Should they be created when the list is created?
> Is there something I have to reconfigure woth wrapper to get this working?

"new_list-owner" etc are no real users, but only mail-aliases.
so every mail that is sent to such "user" will be piped throug the 
mailman-wrapper and sent accordingly

mfg.cd.asr
IOhannes





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