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