[YLUG] Questions about mail servers

[Damian S Posener]

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rob at waylock.co.uk wrote:
>> 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 :-
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> from the command line: 
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> create_email_user <newuser>
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> 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
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