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Re: Mailing list question



On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 19:59, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> I want to setup a real basic mailing list for the users in my lab. 
> There are only about 10 of us, so I would like to do something 
> /etc/aliases.  Is this possible?  Do all the users need to have local 
> accounts where the mail gets delivered? or can I just do something like 
> this:
> 
> list: billy, bob, user1@someplace.com, user2@otherplace.com
> 
> Will that even work?  I don't want to go to the trouble of setting up a 
> listserver, since there are so few of us and it will be infrequently used.
> 
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
> 
> -Roberto

I don't know MTAs (I smarthost outgoing, and firewall incomming, and
forget about the setup), so personally I'd look to see if procmail could
forward to multiple addresses. This wouldn't scale well, but would
provide a fairly simple light-weight solution.

Regards,
  Shaun




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