Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 20:38:54 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> To: Anton Berezin <tobez@plab.ku.dk>, Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: People getting automatically unsub'ed from -arch Message-ID: <v04205522b42bd35573bc@[195.238.21.204]> In-Reply-To: <19991014193054.D74224@plab.ku.dk> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910120133400.404-100000@thelab.hub.org> <19991012142522.57A98152AF@hub.freebsd.org> <19991014184615.B70485@keltia.freenix.fr> <19991014193054.D74224@plab.ku.dk>
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At 7:30 PM +0200 1999/10/14, Anton Berezin wrote: > Hmm, it sends mails itself. I doubt it can do this more effectively than > postfix does. Am I wrong? I quote from the README file: >> You probably want to create a listar user/group so that the program >> runs as an unpriveledged user. Chmod the listar executable to this >> user and make sure this user is a trusted user of your sendmail >> program. Also make sure all the list directories and the >> newlist.pl script have the correct permissions and can be read/written >> by the listar user/group. [ ... deletia ... ] >> Create lists using the newlist.pl script. This script will create all the >> initial list files for your list. Further documentation will be >> forthcoming at a later date (any volunteers?) The newlist.pl script >> will output some aliases which should be added to a valid aliases file >> for sendmail. After adding them, run 'newaliases' (or the equivalent >> for your machine). I've just downloaded the package and haven't yet had a chance to actually try it out, but it looks to me like it uses the standard sendmail & SMTP interfaces. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ____________________________________________________________________ |o| Brad Knowles, <blk@skynet.be> Belgacom Skynet NV/SA |o| |o| Systems Architect, News & FTP Admin Rue Col. Bourg, 124 |o| |o| Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.11.11/12.49 B-1140 Brussels |o| |o| http://www.skynet.be Belgium |o| \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ Unix is like a wigwam -- no Gates, no Windows, and an Apache inside. Unix is very user-friendly. It's just picky who its friends are. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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