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2 total messages Started by Douglas Lucy Thu, 27 Aug 1992 20:28
How to configure MMDF for mailing lists
#986
Author: Douglas Lucy
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 20:28
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I've set up a basic mailing list under MMDF. There's a main alias for
sending mail to the entire group (blue-sky), an outbound alias that
re-routesd the incoming mail to all members of the list, and an alias
for the list maintainer (blue-sky-request). The /usr/mmdf/alias.list
file looks like:

	blue-sky:		blue-sky-outbound@list-processor
	blue-sky-outbound:	</usr/mmdf/lists/blue-sky
	blue-sky-request:	dlucy

Okay, all's well so far. When mail is sent to "blue-sky", everybody
in the file /usr/mmdf/lists/blue-sky gets a copy of the mail.

When someone mails to "blue-sky-request", it comes to me (dlucy).

Now, I want to archive ALL the incoming mail in a file. No problem,
the manual (SCO's) says to add a line ending in:

	"mmdf//usr/mmdf/lists/bs-archive"

So I merrily add:

	blue-sky-archive:	"mmdf//usr/mmdf/lists/bs-archive"

Which works fine for archiving the incoming mail when the primary alias
(blue-sky) is changed to:

	blue-sky:	blue-sky-archive, blue-sky-outbound@list-processor

HOWEVER, the mail nevers goes to ANY of the users!

I've tried many combinations of aliases on the same line, actual commands
instead of aliases, USER alias lists pointing to both outbound and
archive, with no success. It seems I can either mail to everyone on the
lists *OR* keep a copy of all incoming mail, but not both.

Anyone have any ideas? Do *YOU* run a mailing list using MMDF? Do you
archive the inoming mail? Please let me know how you do it...


BTW: We're using MMDF as it comes in SCO Unix 3.2.2.

Thanks in advance
-- 
[ W. Douglas Lucy, VP Technical Services, S and R Software, Inc. ]
[ dlucy@sandr.COM                                                ]
Re: How to configure MMDF for mailing lists
#1008
Author: David J. Fiander
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 12:57
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According to dlucy@sandr.COM (Douglas Lucy):
>Now, I want to archive ALL the incoming mail in a file. No problem,
>the manual (SCO's) says to add a line ending in:
>
>	"mmdf//usr/mmdf/lists/bs-archive"
>
>So I merrily add:
>
>	blue-sky-archive:	"mmdf//usr/mmdf/lists/bs-archive"
>
>HOWEVER, the mail nevers goes to ANY of the users!
>
>I've tried many combinations of aliases on the same line, actual commands
>instead of aliases, USER alias lists pointing to both outbound and
>archive, with no success. It seems I can either mail to everyone on the
>lists *OR* keep a copy of all incoming mail, but not both.

Probably what you want to do is add the line

	"mmdf//usr/mmdf/lists/bs-archive"

to the file /usr/mmdf/lists/blue-sky, and eliminate the
"blue-sky-archive" alias completely.

- David
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