Re: set up simple mailing list?
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 01:58:52PM -0500, Rohit Kumar Mehta imagined:
> Matt Price wrote:
> >hey there,
> >
> >I'd like to set up simple mail account on my box to act as a
> >mailing list for one ofm y classes. So if someone writes to
> >417@derailleur.org,
> >the mail is automatically frwared to a bunch of people.
> >
> >This should be simple, right? I tried writing an
> >od-fashioned .forward with a bunch of mail addresses in it:
> >
> >matt.price@not.utoronto.ca
> >other.people@addresses.ca
> >
>
> That's exactly how I maintain a simple mailing list. I use
> sendmail though, not exim :-P
> Is .forward a sendmailuancy?
>
> >but the mail doesn't seem to land anywhere. Is there a
> >relatively simple way to do this? I believe I'm using exim,
> >though I haven't really messe with the mail delivery system
> >for a year.
> >
> >Well, I should say that I receive most of my mail via getmail
> >and that it gets filtered through procmail. I thought that
> >at one time I had to write a .forward file
> >"|/usr/bin/promcail" but I find that my main account doesn't
> >HAVE a .forward.
My ~/.forward file has this one-liner:
$ cat .forward
|/usr/bin/procmail
I don't remember whether that line was for procmail or
spamassassin thought.
Have Fun,
Raymond
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