Re: [cobalt-developers] Mailing list must have feature

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Steve Werby wrote:

> Feel free to test yourself on a RaQ4 as
> it'll only take a minute to create a test list and verify the change will
> not be overwritten by the GUI, but yes, the config file does not get
> overwritten.  Whether the same can be said for other models before and after
> patches have been applied - I do not know offhand.

Thanks for the information.  I read in the past that changes in the gui
did overwrite the config file, and when I spoke to Cobalt about two
years ago the rep I spoke to then (sorry, I don't remember who it was)
told me that the majordomo install was NOT standard and that I shouldn't
depend on it for my lists hosting business, so I didn't.  Thanks again
for bringing me up-to-date.

> Might I ask what you "developed"?  Is your installation a majordomo source
> installation with a frontend like majorcool (I've done this for myself and
> clients since the RaQ2 when the need arose) or have you developed a custom
> frontend and backend scripts?

Nothing too complex, I'm afraid.  Pretty much what you've done for your
customers, except that we didn't do anything too majorcool-ish; just my
own slightly-changed version of majorhelp.pl.

I've wanted for a long time to create a package for it, but never got
around to it.  I create a directory at /home/majordomo, and set up a
complete copy of majordomo there.  I create an aliases file at
/etc/aliases.majord and install sample list-aliases for instructional
purposes, and make sure everything works properly under smrsh.  Unless
I'm forgetting something, that's about it.

Jeff
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