Re: [cobalt-users] majordomo questions

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Christopher VanOosterhout wrote:

> Greetings All,
> 
> What is the best place to find documentation on the Cobalt RAQ3i
> implementation of Majordomo?

Cobalt hasn't changed Majordomo at all.  What they've done is set up
their gui to make changes to the various majordomo configuration files
<frown>.

> For instance:
> Does MajorCool work?  Is there anything I should be aware of?

Hmmmm... never tried it, but if it did work, any time you'd change the
RaQ (add a site, change a site, etc.) many majordomo configurations
would just cease to exist.

> Does Cobalt ever provide updates to more recent versions of Majordomo?

My RaQ uses majordomo 1.94.4.  The latest version any reasonable person
uses is 1.94.5.  Neither Cobalt nor likely too many other people in the
world will ever implement Majordomo 2; there are just too many other
options out there now if you need more than Majordomo 1 offers, and the
implementation of Majordomo 2 runs even more slowly than Majordomo 1.

> Since the user list manager interface to Majordomo provides only a limited
> number of Majordomo's options does that mean I should not try to use the
> other options?

Many of them, if you use them, will be overridden by Cobalt's gui
"sauce".  When I spoke to Cobalt tech support about this (over a year
ago) their response was that the majordomo was only meant to be used
through their interface and if I had needs to do anything else with
majordomo, I should make my own install.  I did, and I still do.  I
offer a service wherein I install another version of Majordomo on your
system if you'd like, and set up some sample files so you can learn how
to use it.  However, teaching you majordomo is NOT within the scope of
my installation agreement, and I do have to make some (minor) changes to
the install to get it to run alongside the Cobalt installation which I
do NOT remove.

> I have many more questions and I am just wondering if anyone has put
> together documentation specific to the use of Majordomo on the RAQ.  The
> RAQ manual only covers those three or four options it allows with the
> Web  based interface.  I understand that is all they support, and I also
> understand that there is a lot of documentation available about using
> Majordomo in a more traditional hosting setting ... but I guess what I am
> looking for is a way to make sure of any conflicts between the Web
> interface and Cobalt's general set up as compared to using the "advanced"
> "non-Cobalt" supported features of Majordomo.

Then install your own Majordomo alongside Cobalt's, or have an outside
vendor (such as me) do it for you.

Majordomo is NOT a daemon; it doesn't run unless an email has been piped
to it, so it doesn't use up any more system resources this way (except
for under 200k of additional disk space).

Jeff
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