RE: [cobalt-users] Help Installing Majordomo

["Jolley, Carl" <Carl.Jolley@xxxxxxx>]

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From: baltimoremd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:baltimoremd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 1:36 PM
To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] Help Installing Majordomo


On Tue, 25 Jun 2002 baltimoremd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>
> He might want to use all the functions of majordomo, which he can with the
> factory installed majordomo.

Correcting myself
He CAN NOT use all the functions of majordomo with the factory installed
version.
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All the functions of majordomo are based on sending e-mail
commands to majordomo. With the majordomo install on a Raq
if you can't send e-mail commands to majordomo, it's not installed.

Some of the advanced features of majordomo require you to
have access to the root account to be able to modify permissions,
create and edit text files, e.g. creation of a "restrict_post" file.
But that has nothing to do with how majordomo is installed.
I.E. installing majordomo any other way won't address that
situation. In fact, doing the standard install of majordomo on a Raq
where one has potentially multiple virtual sites each that might have
their own majordomo will cause substantial problems by installing the
standard majordomo wrapper that differs from the pre-installed version and
supports virtual sites. My Raq3 has was pre-installed with  the appropriate
"flavor" of the majordomo wrapper. The pre-installed version of majordomo
works just fine and gives me access to _all_ the majordomo functionality.

The silly little functions that you can do with the admin GUI for creating
or modifying a mailing list hardly constitute even a minimal subset of the
functions that you can do with majordomo when used as designed, intented and
provided for by the pre-installed majordomo software. If you or your users
_need_
a GUI interface to majordomo then the most common tool used is majorcool
which
is a set of cgi-bin scripts that will turn the web-based forms into e-mail
commands that it sends to majordomo.