>From: "Chandrashekhar E.M." <shekhar@ril.com>
[...]
> test The list alias itself
> owner-test The owner of the list (who should get bounces)
> test-request The address for administrative requests.
> test-approval The person who approves postings to the list
>
> test: "|/usr/test/majordomo-1.94.3/wrapper resend -l test
>test-list"
> test-list: :include:/usr/test/majordomo-1.94.3/lists/test
> owner-test: you,
> test-owner: you
> test-request: "|/usr/test/majordomo-1.94.3/wrapper majordomo -l
>test"
>
>My questions:
>1.In the first entry test: what is the difference between test and
>test-list?
"test" is the e-mail address which starts the Majordomo processes (the scripts)
which manage the incoming message, doing all the things defined in the
config file, and perhaps a digest or archive.
"test-list" is a file with the e-mail addresses of the "test" subscribers.
Notice it is an argument in the "test" alias.
>2.What is test-request used for?
One mailing list convention is to add "-request" to the list's name to request
adminitrative actions, like subscribe or unsubscribe. Majordomo supports this
convention.
>Also I cannot execute the commands "list " and "intro" etc.They are not
>being recognised.
You should also have a majordomo alias, something like:
majordomo: "|/Users/majordomo/wrapper majordomo"
Also, whenever you change the alias file you must issue the command
"newaliases" to have sendmail re-read the alias database.
>Can you help me out with the appropriate location of the required
>executable files and the exact syntax to be used at the prompt.
The alias file /etc/sendmail/aliases is usually edited by root.
The majordomo scripts are usually in a sub-directory of the account
created to manage the mailing lists, frequently the account name
is majordomo but not necessarily. They can be edited and maintained
by the non-privileged majordomo account.
There really are no commands which are executed from the prompt (except
for newaliases, which isn't a majordomo command). A piece of e-mail
arrives and triggers the execution of a script or scripts which accomplish
the tasks set forth in the list.config file and send the message
on to subscrbers or activates the majordomo script which enrolls one as
a subscriber, returns information about a particular list, etc.
Harrington
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