Re: Majordomo for real dummies.

Hello ,

>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?

You can create a list with name "majordomo-for-real-dumbass" by following the steps given below .

cd <to lists path>
#touch lists/majordomo-for-real-dumbass
#chown daemon:daemon lists/majordomo-for-real-dumbass
#chmod 644 lists/majordomo-for-real-dumbass
 
Edit the file /etc/aliases (or)  /etc/mail/aliases
majordomo: "|<path to wrapper>/wrapper majordomo" 
owner-majordomo:<user name>
majordomo-users: :include:<majordomo installed path>/majordomo/lists/majordomo-for-real-dumbass
owner-majordomo-users:<user name> 

Restart the sendmail

Edit: /opt/iexpress/majordomo/majordomo.cf
Eg;
$whereami = "172.16.1.156";
$whoami = "siva\@$whereami";
$whoami_owner = "siva\@$whereami";if ( defined $ENV{"HOME"}) {
     $homedir = $ENV{"HOME"};
} else {
     $homedir = "/opt/iexpress/majordomo";
}


To subscribe as a user in the majordomo-for-real-dumbass list.

1.login as that user

2.Mail to majordomo on requesting to subscribe

Eg;
$ mail majordomo
subscribe majordomo-for-real-dumbass
.

3.For confirmation sed 
Eg,
$ mail majordomo
auth dd352694 subscribe majordomo-for-real-dumbass [email protected]
.

Now the email address eg;[email protected] is subscribed to majordomo-for-real-dumbass


Regards,
Sivabalakrishnan.G
www.visolve.com
Mail to :[email protected]