Regarding getting Majordomo not to send your own messages back to you:
there is a sendmail option. in fact, i had it set on our old machines;
when i moved to the new machines, i had people who posted and re-posted
their messages to the mailing list "because I never got a copy"...
anyway, to get a copy of your own message, use -om; o for option, m for:
m Send to ``me'' (the sender) also if I am in an alias
expansion.
so the default for sendmail is to not send to the senders if they are in
the alias.
This will not work if the majordomo machine isn't running sendmail; even
if you aren't running "resend", sendmail is reading the /etc/aliases (or
whatever) file. I don't know what happens with resend (in fact, i would
like to know...).
With this, you don't get any confirmation of the message (other than
whatever your mail package does).
> People on design teams who are sending out long messages get annoyed
> (they tell me) when their long messages come bouncing right back at
> them. They prefer "you have new mail" to be more accurate, they say.
>
> Is there any way to do it at all?
I don't think i understand that comment...they should be getting new
mail!
ka
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Kathy Madison SysAdmin, Department of Statistics
klm@umich.edu College of LS&A, University of Michigan
The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody
appreciates how difficult it was.
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