On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Seth Chaiklin wrote:
For now I have simply kludged the following (inadequate) solution (mostly because my recipe writing ability remains at "trial-and-error").
- In aliases file:
listname-subscribe: "|exec /home/list/.bin/flist listname-request"
- Activiate rc.local.r10 in rc.custom
- rc.local.r10 is called in rc.request and contains a preemptory
:0: | subscribe
Couldn't you have a .forward file for the user listname-subscribe that forwards the email to listname-request, or perhaps even just "|exec /home/list/.bin/flist listname-request" stuck in the .forward file would be OK. I've forgotten what little I learned about sendmail.