[Mailman-Users] exim -mailman faq - not working

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Sat Mar 22 15:44:16 CET 2003


On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 17:20, John Swartzentruber wrote:

> I'm not sure I can stretch my memory back to January, but I think the
> issue was that the genaliases script doesn't create a file with the
> aliases in them unless you are using Postfix (presumably with the MTA
> variable set to Postfix). I'm running sendmail and the MTA variable is
> at the default (i.e., Manual). I think the only way to get a list of
> all of the aliases is to capture the output of the genaliases script
> and manually remove the extra comment lines ("To finish creating your
> mailing list . . .").

I've made some updates to genaliases so that Manual should be more
useful.  You can now give it a -q/--quiet flag to supppress the
non-alias instructions.  You would run it like this:

% bin/genaliases -q > /etc/aliases-mailman
% newaliases

-Barry





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