Re: new to majordomo: very confused

[Ed Kasky <ed @ esson . net>]

At 11:29 PM Monday, 2/5/2007, you wrote -=>
> hello all,
> I sure hope someone can help me with this big problem i have.  I 
> don't know if for some reason this isn't sinking in or if the 
> examples and docs are as clear as mud but..i got along fine making a 
> non-digest list called test, did the aliases right and everything, 
> but now when i read the part about creating aliases for the digest 
> and archive its as clear as mud not to mention testing the digest 
> and regular lists, i get a mailer-daemon error showing me that test 
> has been expanded, and it tries to use the include line as the email 
> address or something along that line, i have no clue what is going 
> wrong and really can't explain it better than that. also, one doc 
> says one thing, one says another way, half

It would be good if you include the exact error.

> way into the first doc, it seems like the person lost track  of the 
> directory which doesn't help a newbie.  I am not new to linux at 
> all, just new to mlm software
> and if it helps, these are all the lines i have added to my 
> /etc/mail/aliases file that werent there before, i.e excluding the 
> mailer-daemon and postmaster.
>
> also, i am using slackware 10.2 on a junky gateway p3(i know i 
> know), 800mhz(not by choice)
> so, here are those alias lines:
> like i said, hope someone can clear this up for me
>
> test: :include:/home/majordomo/md/lists/test

Your test alias is supposed to be a command and you have it pointing 
to a text file.  For example - and these include demime and archive:

test: "|/usr/local/majordomo/demime '== /usr/local/majordomo/wrapper 
resend -l test test-list,nobody'"
test-list: :include:/usr/local/majordomo/lists/test, test-archive, 
test-digestify
test-digestify: "|/usr/local/majordomo/digest -r -C -l test-digest 
test-digest-outgoing"
test-digest: test
test-digest-outgoing: :include:/usr/local/majordomo/lists/test-digest
test-archive:  "|/usr/local/majordomo/wrapper archive -f 
/usr/local/majordomo/archives/test/test -a -M"

In your case, you might try the following:

test: "|home/majordomo/md/wrapper resend -l test test-outgoing,nobody"

> test-outgoing: :include:/home/majordomo/md/lists/test, test-digestify
> test-digestify: "|/home/majordomo/md/wrapper digest -r -C -l 
> test-digest test-digest-outgoing"
> test-digest: test
> test-digest-outgoing: :include:/home/majordomo/md/lists/test-digest

As you can see, I set my lists up slightly differently but it works 
just fine if you can follow the logic....

HTH,

Ed

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