[YLUG] Questions about mail servers

[Damian S Posener]

I think the solution to this is sitting at the bottom of this email -- 
Mailman! Best thing for organising mailing lists in my opinion, and you 
should be able to tweak it to your needs to keep things running smooth. 
Good luck.

Rob Hall wrote:
> Morning all,
>
> I've just successfully set up my first mail server which I'm dead
> chuffed about. Steep learning curve but it works! I'm using Postfix and
> Courier and I've set up a Squirrelmail webmail service. All the virtual
> names and domains are held in a MySQL database.
>
> My question is how to go about setting up what I suppose are mailing
> lists for the server. I want to send a welcome email to all the users
> (currently about 1000 but soon to rise to about 1900) with the purposes
> of being not only a nice introduction for them but also serving the
> purpose of sending an initial email so that the webmail service works
> for them (doesn't like mailboxes to which no email has been sent yet) Is
> there a relatively simple way of achieving this? I've tried setting up
> an alias of welcome at foo.net to *@foo.net but the logs tell me that
> *@foo.net doesn't exist.
>
> I'd like this to be as automagic as possible (i.e. if I add new users,
> they are automatically sent the email and added to what ever mechanism I
> use to send to welcome at foo.net) but I also only want to allow certain
> users to have the ability to send to that email address (i.e. I don't
> want spammers to be able to send mail to welcome at foo.net and effectively
> spam all my users). I also want to be able to send important maintenance
> and admin messages to all the users from time to time. 
>
> Any ideas gratefully received!
>
> Ta
>
> Rob Hall
>
>
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