[YLUG] Questions about mail servers

[rob at waylock.co.uk]

>I think the solution to this is sitting at the bottom of this email -- 
>Mailman! Best thing for organising mailing lists in my opinion 

Thanks for that. I have now got Mailman up and running for this mail server. I'll have a tweak and a twiddle round with it and see if I can get it to do what I want. I'm able to upload a file with new users in which will get me up and running - just need to figure a way of adding any new email addresses that I create automatically.

None of us here are scared of the command line so does this idea sound reasonable. If I create some kind of script (let's call it something like create_email_user for arguments sake) which broadly did the following steps :-

from the command line: 

create_email_user <newuser>

1) invoked MySQL and created the new email address for <newuser> using the relevant INSERT INTO command
2) sent an email from <newuser> to list-subscribe at foo.net which would get an automatic reply from the list and thus populate their mailbox with the required initial email for their webmail to work.

Sound reasonable?

Ta

Rob