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In article <1992Dec15.195116.22956@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>  
szatezal@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Shane M Zatezalo) writes:
> Is there a way to define an alias in the NetInfoDB that would, upon
> it receiving mail, run a script?
> 
> Or would it be better to create a user who's login is that script, and add
> him to the membership list of the alias?
> 
> (I'm trying to figure out an easy way to do a mailing list)

This is actually a sendmail property. (As I heard from the net, NeXT
Inc. seemd to have included the sendmail in NetInfo in 3.0. Is that
true? How does it affect things?) 

What you want to do (in 2.1 at least ;-) ) is to include a line like

mailprg: "|/usr1/gemoe/Apps/mailprg.filter"

in your /etc/sendmail/aliases file. (Remember to do a "newaliases"
in a shell!) Here, "mailprg" is a pseudonym (there is no user like
that) just for sendmail. All mail going to
mailprg@proximus.north.de gets actually piped to the program
/usr1/gemoe/Apps/mailprg.filter. Easy, hey? 

Also you might want (for a mailing list) a mechanism like 

mailing_list: :include:/usr/local/lib/sendmail/mailing.list

This includes a File (/usr/local/lib/sendmail/mailing.list).
Here it means that any mail to mailing_list@proximus.north.de gets
actually send to the names in a comma-seperated list in the file. (But
be aware that lists can only be 1000 chars long due an design fault.
This is no real problem, just include the next file at the end of the
previous one. (="chaining")) The enties in such a file could look
like: 

Name1 <foo@bar.edu>, \
Name2 <blupp@bla.de>, \
...

(This is how I do it. Though I use sendmail 5.65-ida, it should work for
all sendmails.)

The only remaining problem is the administration of the list. Adding
and removing users, sending help-files, etc. has to be done. As my
mailing list is small, this is no real problem, but I would like to have
good programs that do the job and no time to write them (scripts should
do the job) -- if anyone out in the net knows some decent mailing list
administration programs, I would be glad to know!!! 

	Bye, Gerhard.
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