Re: [cobalt-users] Configuring mailing lists remotely on Raq 3/3i

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Martyn Drake wrote:

> If we went ahead with purchasing these boxes in the dozen for our
> customers, we need to have a way for them to configure their mailing
> lists, and the only way I can find is through creating a symbolic link
> from the user's home directory to the
> /usr/local/majordomo/www.drake.org.uk/ directory.  This will mean that
> the users can download/upload a new config through FTP or shell access
> (not desirable).
> 
> Is there any way to fix the Majordomo config/newconfig update problem
> as shown above easily?

Majordomo documentation is very clear on the fact that the restrict post
option is not too satisfactory specifically because there's no easy way
to get the file on the server.

The easy way to do it is to create a perl program that'll accept a file,
check it for contents, and place it in the proper directory.  Then set
up an alias for this perl program, so you can send it the file via
email.

(We do commercial email-list hosting, and we've set this up for several
of our clients.)

Jeff
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