Re: [cobalt-users] Majordomo

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:04 PM 2/23/00 +0000, you wrote:

> I'm wondering if the installed majordomo in a Raq2 is up to running a
> 'proper' list.

I gave up on it and reinstalled majordomo into "/usr/local/majord".

>  I've agreed as a favour to host the football (soccer) mailing
> list I'm on, as esosoft stopped doing lists and passed everything over to
> topica.com which is a nightmare, the other day we were 'treated' to
> attachments of over 100kb.

They'll quickly lose all their list business at that rate.  Hotmail only 
gives out 2mb accounts.  So twenty posts would fill a hotmail account to 
overflowing.  Ouch.

>  I have attempted to install a new majordomo, and
> have played with virtusertable, sendmail.cf and created a seperate majordomo
> aliases file,

Did you add a line to /etc/sendmail.cf to recognize the new aliases file?

> but sending a mail to the majordomo at the domain I thought I
> set up to, results in a mail from the default majordomo.

There's a few reasons this could be happening.  For example, did you create 
a new copy of wrapper?  This is the way we do it.  However, it's NOT trivial.

>  I have restarted,
> cursed and given up several times, and am now wondering if the raq's default
> majordomo could do a secure and decent job, or if I'm missed something
> stupid.

As I've said, we could never get the RaQ's majordomo to do the job well, 
and when I asked Cobalt tech support, they gentlemen who took the call told 
me that Majordomo on the RaQ was only there to set up lists from the GUI, 
which I didn't feel gave me enough options in terms of archiving, 
digesting, etc.

Jeff

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Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>