Configuring Mailman

[Toby Fisher]

On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Rejean Proulx wrote:

> I sent this message yester but I don't think it got through.

Ye, it did.(grin)

> I am starting to configure Mailman, and nothing is quite as simple as it
> seems.  I found a line in documentation that I need to do, but I don't know
> what it is trying to tell me to do.  Here is the line.  What does this mean?
> What is the system_aliases director?  I suspect that if I don't do what ever
> this is saying, it won't work.
> 
> For users of exim: if you want to use the /etc/aliases file for mailman
> aliases, you'll need to specify a user=list line or something like that in
> the system_aliases director.

Ok, you need to know a bit about how Exim works.
It uses directors to handle things like user aliases, forwards etc.
If you look in your Exim configuration file you'll find a section labelled 
directors.

However, don't just blindly add the line mentionned above, as it may have 
unwanted side-effects.

Look in spec.txt in the directory where the Exiom documentation resides, 
there's a whole chapter on mailing list management, or failing that, use 
the html docs on 
http://www.exim.org or one of its mirrors.

HTH

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