[thelist] how to set up a mailing list

[BT Bigpant]

Hi Daniel,

Thanks for the advice, but I'm not quite there yet.

I have been digging into this on my work's web server (externally hosted),
and I have exhausted the support desk knowledge trying to achieve what you
suggest, as well as losing my marbles searching for clues about sendmail
(which I have no knowledge of).

The problem is that I don't have root access, so I can't get down to
etc/aliases. There is, however, a directory named 'Mail' in the lowest
directory I have access to (a sibling of public_html script directory).
Although the support staff swear blind this is not created as a default, it
appears on all our clients' script space, and it contains a file called
'context' (no file extension), which contains 'Current-Folder: inbox'.

Is this the alias file that I need to be hacking ..er modifying? I just want
to be sure before I screw up my works mail service !

TIA
Phil

-----Original Message-----
From: thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org
[mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of Daniel J. Cody
Sent: 01 March 2002 00:14
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: Re: [thelist] how to set up a mailing list


Hey Phil -

Good question, with a fairly simple answer :)

Add something like this to your alias file(usually /etc/aliases or
/etc/mail/aliases):

list:
	"|/path/to/script.sh"

important to point out that the space between list: and the " is a tab,
not just spaces.

hth, shout if you have other questions :)

.djc.

BT Bigpant wrote:
> I have been extremely impressed with evolt's list and the way you
intercept
> emails and process them. I would like to set up something similar
(although
> not on this scale) to the evolt list ( my interest is in audio recording,
so
> there's no competition ). Really, I just have one question - how do you
get
> sendmail to pass the email to a script ?




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