Re: Smail type mailing lists

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Tim Sailer
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: Smail type mailing lists
On Thu, 18 Sep 1997, Tim Sailer wrote:

> I am trying to figure a way to change a system that is very overloaded
> running smail to run exim. This system is a departmental mail hub run
> by semi-literate folks that just barely understand the smail way of doing
> 'mailing lists'. In /etc/smail/lists, there are 2 files for each list.
> One holds the list of valid emails ( say 'list1' ) and the other file
> is 'owner-list1' that holds a single email address that any problems
> with this list would go to. Has anyone tried to do this with exim?


Yes. That is the way the Exim mailing list was run before it moved to
exim.org. It is precisely the example at the start of chapter 40 of the
1.71 manual.

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Philip Hazel                   University Computing Service,
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