[Mailman-Users] Alternatives to having a list own itself

Dan Good dgood at independence.k12.ia.us
Tue Feb 27 21:16:48 CET 2007


Where can I find more information concerning the uses of aliases and  
some examples?

Dan Good

On Feb 27, 2007, at 7:43 AM, Kelly Jones wrote:

> On 2/22/07, Brad Knowles <brad at shub-internet.org> wrote:
>> At 6:43 PM -0700 2/22/07, Kelly Jones wrote:
>>
>>>  My question: what's the best way to handle a situation like  
>>> this? Have
>>>  a list owned by itself or "effectively" owned by itself.
>>
>> What I've done in situations similar to this, is to make the
>> listowner list itself owned by an alias that is directly resolvable
>> out of /etc/aliases.  So, there is no loop -- owner mail for other
>> lists goes to the listowner list, owner mail for the listowner list
>> goes to the listmaster alias, and that's that.
>
> Thanks, Brad. My problem here is that the 'sysops' list changes
> frequently, and I don't want to maintain it in two places
> (/etc/mail/aliases and the list membership). I suppose I could have a
> script update /etc/mail/aliases using the output of "list_members
> sysops", but this seems kludgey.
>
> I'd also like members of 'sysops' to decide whether they want "message
> to 'sysops' awaiting approval" or not. If I make it an alias, everyone
> will get these emails. If I send it to a mailing list, I can setup a
> topic so that only people who want those messages will receive them.
>
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