"Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com> writes:
> My _real_ question is this... Given that Todd _may_ have one of the shell
> accounts that I know WCO offers, what can he do alone and independently,
> using his shell account, to get up some modern list management software
> in and for _him_ personal account?
>
> Can things like modern versions of Majordomo be run out of a personal
> shell account? Or is this impractical for some reason?
To set up a majordomo mail server, you'd need (1) access to mail
account that will receive all the list and list administration traffic
(that is, a seperate account from anything you expected to receive
personal mail with), and (2) access to the configuration file of
whatever MTA (usually sendmail) runs on the server and receives the
mail for the list account so that the proper mail aliases can be set
up for the list.
Both of those are problematic, especially (2). (You could always
sacrifice an account to get (1) -- but even that's not always an
option.) It's more than reasonable to deny users access to the MTA
configuration files -- in fact, it's generally insane to do anything
else. Without that access, it's impossible to maintain the mailing
list software (which is different from maintaining a list).
So, in a word -- yes. Not just impractical, essentially impossible.
doubt
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