Re: Majordomo for real dummies.

On Monday 17 October 2005 15:05, Jørn Dahl-Stamnes wrote:
> I installed majordomo today, but I still don't have a clue of how to create
> a list on my mail server. I have read the documents over and over again,
> but still I'm confused.
>
> Could someone please give me a detail description of how I can create a
> mailing list using majordomo?
>
> Assume I want to create my own list called "majordomo-for-real-dumbass" and
> add my e-mail address to the list?

Based on the information on the NEWLIST file, I have tried to:

cd /usr/local/majordomo
touch Lists/testlist
chmod 664 Lists/testlist
echo "some text" > Lists/testlist.info
chmod 664 Lists/testlist.info
vi majordomo.aliases
and added the lines:
  testlist:             :include:/usr/local/majordomo/Lists/testlist
  owner-testlist:  <my-real-e-mail-address>,
  testlist-request:  "|/usr/local/majordomo/wrapper request-answer testlist"
  testlist-approval:      <my-real-e-mail-address>

then a 'su -' and a 'newaliases '

Then I tried to send a mail to
[email protected] with the subject "subscribe" from an 
external mail account. This is the reply I get from my mail-server

>    ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
>"|/usr/local/majordomo/wrapper request-answer testlist"
>     (reason: Service unavailable)
>     (expanded from: <[email protected]>)
>
>    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
>smrsh: "wrapper" not available for sendmail programs (stat failed)
>554 5.0.0 Service unavailable

I have added a link in /etc/shrsh to the wrapper program:
[root@mailer majordomo]# ls -l /etc/smrsh/
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           28 Oct 17 14:01 wrapper 
-> /usr/local/majordomo/wrapper


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Jørn Dahl-Stamnes
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