RE: [cobalt-users] Help configuring Bulk_mailer on Cobalt server

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

-----Original Message-----
From: Milum Software
To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: 7/2/02 5:32 PM
Subject: [cobalt-users] Help configuring Bulk_mailer on Cobalt server

I have searched through the archive and did not find any special 
information related to using Bulk_mailer on my raq so I have a question
and 
hope someone on the list has had the same problem.

I'm running a Raq4 and attempting to configure bulk_mailer 1.13 to speed
up 
a 9k list. I downloaded and ran the make and Install files and all looks

well with the build of Bulk_Mailer (BM). I seem to be having problems 
adding BM to my aliases.majordomo. When I make what I believe is the 
correct change and then run newaliases all seems fine until I send email
to 
the list. When I send email to the list I get no response and I see
nothing 
in the maillog and nothing in mailq. If someone has experience setting
up 
bulk_mailer I would love to hear how you where able to get it to work.

Majordomo has the following as the correct aliases setting:
sample-outgoing: |"/path/to/bulk_mailer owner-sample@xxxxxxxxx 
/path/to/lists/sample"

One question is what goes in the location "owner-sample@xxxxxxxxx"

My Cobalt servers has a slightly different aliases setting:(Modified to 
hide true info)
officetrack_site3-list: 
:include:/usr/local/majordomo/www.my.com/lists/officetrack

Any help would be greatly appreciated. 
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The "usual" convention for an '-outgoing" alias is that
it is the list of addresses to which the mail will be
distributed. I've always seen "-outgoing" aliases defined
in terms of an ":include" not as a pipe.
I've never seen an "-outgoing" type alias
used for the receiving side of a mail-list alias, i.e.
the type of alias defined as a pipe.

In most cases, I've seen mailing lists set up with two
aliases, one for the receiving side which for majordomo
is usually in the form of:

mylist: "/usr/local/majordomo/wrapper resend -l listname 
listname-outgoing

And then for the distribution list:

listname-outgoing: :include listname,nobody

The first alias defines the receiving side, the second
defines the distribution list.

You don't appear to be using majordomo but rather bulk-mailer
for the receiving side. My WAG is that the first parameter
to bulk-mailer is the From: header value.