From owner-freebsd-current Thu Oct 14 11:39:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from out0.mx.skynet.be (out0.mx.skynet.be [195.238.2.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60E1815116 for ; Thu, 14 Oct 1999 11:39:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@foxbert.skynet.be) Received: from foxbert.skynet.be (foxbert.skynet.be [195.238.1.45]) by out0.mx.skynet.be (8.9.3/odie-relay-v1.0) with ESMTP id UAA03085; Thu, 14 Oct 1999 20:39:33 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from root@localhost) by foxbert.skynet.be (8.9.1/jovi-pop-2.1) id UAA10827; Thu, 14 Oct 1999 20:39:32 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: blk@foxbert.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <19991014193054.D74224@plab.ku.dk> References: <19991012142522.57A98152AF@hub.freebsd.org> <19991014184615.B70485@keltia.freenix.fr> <19991014193054.D74224@plab.ku.dk> Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 20:38:54 +0200 To: Anton Berezin , Ollivier Robert From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: People getting automatically unsub'ed from -arch Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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, 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