From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 11 22: 1:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from home.offwhite.net (home.offwhite.net [156.46.35.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C489E37B491 for ; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 22:01:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (brennan@localhost) by home.offwhite.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f1C61Pm73496 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 00:01:25 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from brennan@offwhite.net) Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 00:01:25 -0600 (CST) From: Brennan Stehling To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: a temporary mail alias Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am avoiding creating a majordomo system and would like to know if there is a way to create a temporary mail alias. I have aliases in /etc/mail/aliases but in order to create more aliases the only way I know to do it is edit that file to add a new alias with a list of addresses and then run newaliases. I am wondering if there is another way to do it. Any sendmail buffs out there? I have used bulk_mailer in the past to send mailings out to friends for summer parties and such, but what I want to do is build a nice web interface which can leverage sendmail as a delivery agent. Since the web server will never run as root it will not have access to edit the alias file. This web interface would allow users to add and remove themselves for the list easily. Previously I have sent an email to each user one by one, and that is inefficient. It is also prone to problems and it also takes longer than it should. I need to come up with a better solution. Any help is appreciated. Brennan Stehling - software developer and system administrator my projects: home.offwhite.net (free personal hosting) www.greasydaemon.com (bsd search) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message