Fw: [cobalt-users] Mailing list

["aki watanabe" <watanabe@xxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Steven Werby <steven-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, August 18, 2000 10:00 AM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Mailing list


> Paul Grondahl <pgrondahl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I whish to create a a mailing list named all@xxxxxxxxxx - shouldn't be
too
> hard right?
> > Well, it's not possible through the web interface.
> >
> > The web interface only allows me to create a list named
> all@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Is "hostname.domain.com" the name of your server?  Is "domain.com" the
same
> domain as the domain part of the server name?  Real host names would be
helpful
> here.  I haven't touched the pre-installed Majordomo on anything but a
RaQ2, but
> I believe in /usr/local/majordomo/majordomo.cf you'll find a line near the
top
> for a variable $whereami or $whoami or something similar and you can
change it
> to "domain.com" and I believe it will take care of your problem.
>
> > I tried making an alias in the /etc/aliases file, but it seems like
aliases
> that expand to
> > multiple receipients are somehow piped through majordomo.
>
> An alias from what to what?  What did the record look like?  Aliases used
by
> majordomo involve pipes to the Majordomo wrapper program with flags and
> parameters.  Unless you added these to the aliases file your alias won't
be
> processed by Majordomo.  And in case you don't know, you need to run
> "newaliases" for your changes to create the db file that Sendmail actually
uses.
>
> > How is majordomo
> > called? Is there a way I can disable majordomo?
>
> Check aliases.majordomo and look for the lines related to majordomo to see
how
> it's called.  Visit the Majordomo site
(http://www.greatcircle.com/majordomo/)
> for more info.  Delete the majordomo directory or move it to disable it.
Or if
> it was installed by RPM ("rpm -qa | grep -n majordomo" to check) type
"rpm -e
> packagenamehere" to delete it.  But Majordomo has nothing to do with
regular
> aliases.  If you don't want to use it, don't.  If you delete it, mailing
lists
> will still be available from the GUI, but they just won't work.  And if
you're
> on a RaQ2 *do not* delete it as it's used by Cobalt internally.
>  .
> > I'm not experienced with either sendmail nor majordomo although I am
reading
> the Sendmail "bat book" which is rather complex.... to say the least. This
was
> easy with Exchange server!
>
> Paul, I get the idea you might not even really need a mailing list.  Do
you just
> need an email to a large number of users?  I posted a message on the
subject in
> response to someone else earlier today.  Find it here:
> http://list.cobalt.com/pipermail/cobalt-users/2000-August/018852.html
>
> --
> Steven Werby {steven-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx}
>
>
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