Yep, I'm a bonehead. Even before you wrote back, I slapped my forehead when reading section one. For some reason, when I read it through the first time, I didn't realize that "createlist testing" actually created a separate email list called testing, even though it's clearly stated so in the text. I don't know what I was thinking. I was maybe just fixated on finding the word "multiple" or "many" or something.
Thank you again, for not making me feel more foolish than I deserve.
-Kevin Zembower
>>> Charlie Summers <charlie(a)lofcom.com> 05/09/01 02:44PM >>>
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(a)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
