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- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 19:30:25 GMT
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- From: Robin Goldstone <robin_goldstone@MACGATE.CSUCHICO.EDU>
- Subject: mailing list automation
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- Our campus currently has a mailing list set up that any user can send to, which
- will in turn be re-distributed to everyone on the campus e-mail system. This
- list, called USERS, is managed by PMDF as follows:
-
- In VMS mail, there is a forwarding address which forwards USERS to IN%USERS
-
- In the PMDF alias file, there is an entry for USERS:
- USERS: <dua1:[local]users.dis
-
- So when people send to USERS on the VAX, it re-directs to all the people in the
- users.dis file.
-
- I have been asked to make a change in this procedure, such that messages sent
- to USERS get stored on the VAX, and sent out at midnight i.e. deferred
- delivery. I won't go into details about why they want to do this, it is
- political.
-
- How can I implement this? I have looked at DELIVER but I don't really have
- any experience using it, so I am not sure it will do what I need. The messages
- need to be sent back out, retaining their original headers and everything else.
- If not DELIVER, then what? Can I define a new channel, that uses a different
- batch queue, that I can stop and then start every night at midnight? I would
- have to be able to set up a re-write rule based on the left hand side of the
- address to do this. Is that possible?
-
- Any suggestions are appreciated.
- Robin Goldstone, CSU Chico
- robin@csuchico.edu
-