Proposed FAQ: Setting up multiple lists
I searched the Manual, FAQ, installation instructions and email list for the last year and still didn't find a clear explanation of how to set up multiple email lists on the same server. If I overlooked it, please just point it out. I'm a SmartList newbie; this is the first list I've ever set up in SmartList. Maybe this stuff is obvious to more experienced users. My questions: Do you have to set up a user account and create home directories for each email list desired? But, it shouldn't have the same user ID as the name of the mailinglist itself? OR, do you create subdirectories under /home/slist for each of the mailinglists you want? If so, do you run install.sh for each of these subdirectories, or just copy certain files to each of them? If you had to set up separate user IDs for each mailinglist, do you have to enter a Trusted User in the /etc/sendmail.cf file for each one? Then, do you run install.sh /home/mailinglist for each mailinglist? If you do this, must you, should you, or can you erase certain files or directories and hard link what they were to actual files and directories in /home/slist? Thanks for helping clear up my uncertainties as I set up my first SmartList. -Kevin Zembower ----- E. Kevin Zembower Unix Administrator Johns Hopkins University/Center for Communications Programs 111 Market Place, Suite 310 Baltimore, MD 21202 410-659-6139
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 01:59:20PM -0400, KEVIN ZEMBOWER wrote:
I searched the Manual, FAQ, installation instructions and email list for the last year and still didn't find a clear explanation of how to set up multiple email lists on the same server. If I overlooked it, please just point it out. I'm a SmartList newbie; this is the first list I've ever set up in SmartList. Maybe this stuff is obvious to more experienced users.
See the manual, section 1, "Creating and removing mailinglists". Follow the example given. Roger
At 1:59 PM -0400 5/9/01, KEVIN ZEMBOWER is rumored to have typed:
I searched the Manual
Er...um...did you actually read SECTION ONE of the Manual file:
Contents: --------- 1. Creating and removing mailinglists or archive servers
Do you have to set up a user account and create home directories for each email list desired?
No. See SECTION ONE of the .etc/Manual file.
But, it shouldn't have the same user ID as the name of the mailinglist itself? OR, do you create subdirectories under /home/slist for each of the mailinglists you want?
No. You allow createlist to do it for you. See SECTION ONE of the .etc/Manual file.
If so, do you run install.sh for each of these subdirectories, or just copy certain files to each of them?
Yipe. Look, you're working _way_ too hard. cd into your "main" SmartList directory (you know, the one with .bin/, .etc/, .examples/, et al) after suing or logging in as the owning user, and type: $ .bin/createlist <listname> <maintainer address> ...where, of course, you replace the information in bracksts. An example might be: $ .bin/createlist mysmartlist charlie@lofcom.com ...and then let SmartList do the work. This really isn't FAQ material, since it's covered COMPLETELY in the .etc/Manual file...you might want to sit down with a beverage and actually read that file carefully from start to finish. I disagree that you need to, or even SHOULD, stick /path/to/smartlist/.bin/ in your path (good lord, my path is big enough already, thanks), which is why I suggest the slightly different methodology above. That said, though, reading section ONE of the Manual file will pretty much tell you how to create a mailing list under SmartList...multiple lists are created _exactly_ the same way. What most of us do (I think) is create a single user named something like slist (or whatever you like) to control the lists; install SmartList in slist's user directory, then use createlist to create as many lists as you want, pointing aliases to "flist <thelistname>" (or do it the wacky way I do, sending everything to slist and using a _real_ .procmailrc file to distribute to the lists). Multiple installs of SmartList on a single machine are unnecessary, and would be really kinda messy. Charlie
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