Claudia needs a mailing list in order to manage her newsletter. ¹ My Debian box is usually offline, we don’t have a static IP. What now?
I installed Mailman, failed to grok it, and installed **Minimalist** ².
1. Set options in _etc_minimalist.conf
2. Created directory in _var_spool/minimalist
3. Used chown list.list on that directory
4. Added pipe to _etc_aliases: _minimalist: “|usr_bin/minimalist”__
5. Enabled pipes by uncommenting *user = list* in _etc_exim/exim.conf
That last one eluded me for quite a while. The pipe alias just ate mail like the big black hole of bastard bounces... No error, nothing. Just *poof*!
Then I wrote shell scripts for Claudia: One to subscribe people, one to unsubscribe people, one to see who is on the list.
I send all my mail using Emacs, and didn’t bother to set up SMTP outside of Emacs. (Well, actually I did but it never worked as expected.) Now it seems that I need to do this again. Time passes... See Comments on 2004-06-03 Software for the evils that befell me.
Comments on 2004-06-03 Software
And it works! Amazing. 22:00. 😢
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I use postfix to send my mail and configure it to blindly send all mail to my companys SMTP server (my box is a null client). I use fetchmail to get my mail. Gnus sends it to the local SMTP daemon and picks up mail from a local spool file. It was quite painless and the docs I used are here ¹
Since you’ve already gotten quite far with exim, this is probably redundant :D
– NoufalIbrahim 2004-06-03 15:58 UTC
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I’m trying to install postfix right now. When I use ’’mail -s foo -a ’From: foo@bar’ -a ’Sender: foo@bar’ quux@bar’’, then exim will overwrite the Sender header and use alex@confusibombus, which will be rejected by the ISP’s SMTP host... Grrrr! > lsearch/etc/aliases}}lsearch{_etc_aliases}} user = list # group = mail file_transport = address_file pipe_transport = address_pipe # directory_transport = address_directory
– Alex Schroeder 2004-06-03 19:56 UTC
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YAY! Finally ��
Although you seemed to have hit a lot of funny stuff with postfix. It was a breeze on my machine here. Dunno why. 😒
– NoufalIbrahim 2004-06-04 06:44 UTC
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I assume it is a Debian unstable thingy...
– Alex Schroeder 2004-06-04 08:57 UTC