INTRO:
I am looking for software to help manage the mailing lists for our
college at Wright State University. I cannot seem to find documentation
that tells me if MajorDomo can do what we need. I have read the FAQ,
I read the README, and several other doc files in the majordomo-1.93
distribution--can you help?
BACKGROUND:
We build mailing lists for our users based on what group they are in
in /etc/passwd. For example, if a user is in group csgrad, they get
put on a list for graduade students in computer science so the dept
can send info to all of their students electronically. I didn't know
of any software that would do this, so I wrote my own program in C
to create these lists (this was more than a grep because there are
exceptions and exemptions for each list). I then wrote another
program in C to go through these lists and deliver the mail to each
user one at a time after modifying the header so that inexperienced
users could not accidentally reply to the entire list and start
a chain reaction (this used to happen frequently).
WHAT I WANT:
I would like to turn some of this list management over to some list
handling software so that if a user does not want to receive mail
from these lists, he/she can "unsubscribe" from the list.
THE PROBLEM:
>From what I have read about majordomo, it cannot do what I want.
Can someone verify this: The problem as I see it is, since I build the
mailing lists every night via a cron job (because we create new accounts
each day, and people leave regularly) if I subscribe all these
people each night, then the users that don't want to be on the list
would have to unsubscribe each day. What I want to do is
if (! unsubscribed) && (!already subscribed)
subscribe username
Can this sort of thing be done with majordomo?
Please email replies directly to me, I'm not on the list. Thanks in advance.
Mike
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Michael P. Corcoran, Computer Systems Engineer (corcoran@cs.wright.edu)
College of Engineering and Computer Science FAX :(513) 873-5009
Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, USA VOICE:(513) 873-5157
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