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- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 20:56:33 GMT
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- From: "Daniel C. Newman" <DAN@INNOSOFT.COM>
- Subject: RE: Help setting up mailing lists
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- > We have a news server with newsgroups such as email.msmail.appletalk. I'd
- > like to create MAILSERV mailing lists with the same name, as far as the user
- > is concerned.
- >
- > If I create .DIS files by replacing periods with underscores, users also
- > will have to replace periods with underscores when they SUBSCRIBE.
- >
- > Can the mapping file be used to change the command sent to MAILSERV? For
- > instance, map SUBSCRIBE EMAIL.MSMAIL.APPLETALK ... to SUBSCRIBE
- > EMAIL-MSMAIL-APPLETALK ...?
-
- For the time being, you're only option is to change the list names. We'll look
- into adding for 4.2 a mapping table to map list names to mailing list file
- names.
-
- Note that the source to MAILSERV ships with PMDF. Some simple code additions
- will allow periods in list names to be translated to hyphens. In a separate
- message I'll send you such a modified version of MAILSERV. The translations
- are hard-coded and do not use mapping tables.
-
- Dan
-