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- From: dlucy@sandr.COM (Douglas Lucy)
- Subject: How to configure MMDF for mailing lists
- Organization: S&R Software, Inc.
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 20:28:24 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.202824.18700@sandr.COM>
- Followup-To: comp.mail.misc
- Keywords: MMDF LIST MTA SCO MAIL UUCP
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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 ]
-