[Mailman-Users] Newbie question

[Jon Carnes]

On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 09:12, Key Dof wrote:
> Thanks a lot for you reply, in fact my question wasn't about the
> possibility of being installed (as servers) but it's about the fact of
> interacting, ie: when an email arrives to the server, if it knows where
> to deliver it (a user or mailman).
> If you confirm that it can be done, i will install it and go reading the
> docs, but if it is impossible because it's either a user delivery or a
> mailing list delivery, than i will have to start installing another
> machine.
> Thanks again
> 
Mailman uses the aliases file. Each mailing list adds several aliases to
the aliases file. The only real user you need to add to the machine is
one that is specifically setup to run the applications.  The name of
that user is normally "mailman".