I have no experience with cobalt systems, but lots of experience with
majordomo. A digest IS a separate list, the way majordomo works, but
it is controlled via the /etc/aliases (or additional aliases) file(s).
Something to keep in mind, is majordomo/sendmail allow mixed/upper
case names for your list(s), but, the filename for the list MUST be
in "lower" case. A list named OurList in the aliases file would be
named ourlist (no upper case letters) on the hard drive. Hopefully,
your control panel takes care of this for you.
Secondly, a digest is more than just a separate list. It is only a
separate list when it comes to subscribers. When digesting a list,
you need aliases that direct messages written directly to the digest
to be redirected into the non-digested list, but resent to the tool
or alias that actually combines the messages into a digest. I wrote
a message to this list earlier today with a sample set of aliases
that may help you understand this.
I have no knowledge of majorcool either, but you will probably get
other responses regarding majorcool from those members that are
knowledgeable in this area.
Dan Liston
"Mario A. Salinas" wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
> I'm new to this list so I ask that you all forgive my ignorance while
> I get up to speed. I have a Cobalt Raq3 and use the control panel
> interface that Cobalt provides to create lists for a client. The
> client is a friend of mine and is having trouble finding the commands
> required to...
>
> 1. Create a digest version of an existing list. Our control
> panel lets us create a list so we made a new list that has the same
> name as our list but with "-digest" appended to the name. So
> 'OurList' would be the name of the list and the digest version
> created has the '-digest' appended and looks as follows:
>
> 'OurList-digest'
>
> But when we send commands to configure the 'digest' version of the
> list we are told no digest exists.
>
> What we do not understand most of all is that if the digest gets its
> info from the original list, how could a digest be a separate list?
> How can it not be a result and not a command within the originating
> list?
>
> 2. Manually switch people to/from (subscribe/unsubscribe) the
> digest version of the list because the Cobalt doesn't seem to provide
> any way of doing that.
>
> Can anyone help with the easiest method of accomplishing that goal?
>
> I have attempted to get help from the company we lease our machines
> from in the resolution of these questions to no avail.
>
> I have recently installed MajorCool on the Cobalt machine and was
> lucky enough to get someone to sit with me for two hours during the
> installation process but we were unable to get that working either.
> This is why I'm hoping someone here has had some experience with this
> issue on a Cobalt Raq3 running Linux. We've been struggling with
> this stuff for months.
>
> On a side note... This client/friend of mine is a well known author
> who helps her readers every day and posts help on several lists
> herself. Unfortunatly, so far, we've had no luck getting the answers
> we need to put this problem to rest. Your help will be greatly
> appreciated. Really.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Mario A. Salinas
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