[Linux-Discussion] Re: sendmail
- From: Damian Scott <sdamian@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: linux-discussion@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 14:46:35 -0700
Ok. I understand now. I must not have been clear to begin with. : )
Paul's suggestion for what you're looking for wasn't too bad. The nice
thing about using a 3rd party mailing list program is often times the
sender receives a copy of what was sent to the list. Aside from making
the sender part of the group in your aliases file or including the sender
in the cc: line, I'm not sure how to make sendmail do this. There is
another option in the aliases file to make maintaining larger lists more
manageable by implementing the ":include:" feature in the aliases file,
but I don't believe this has the option of notifying the sender.
Damian
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Thanks Damian, really appreciate it,
Here is what I have already, but I put it in the aliases file, then used
newaliases.
programgroup: user1domain.com, user8@xxxxxxxxxxx,
username4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
This works great without errors, i.e., ALL the users get a copy of the
mail
WHEN it is addressed to "programgroup@xxxxxxxxxxxx". However, the sender
does
not get a copy, and that is what I'm trying to
figure out.
A second task is for each group member's mail to contain
"programgroup@xxxxxxxxxxxx" as a return address.
Robert
Damian Scott wrote:
> mailman or majordomo is not required to do what sendmail can do on it's
> own. However, you do need to know something about sendmail. When you
> send mail to user@xxxxxxxxxxx all sendmail needs to do is a default mx
> record lookup (along with other sendmail default activity of course).
You
> are trying to send mail to 'user1' and 'user1' does not exist on that
unix
> box, correct? This makes it a non-local delivery. This means you need
to
> automatically append the domain name to user1 in order for mail
addressed
> to 'user1' to work correctly. You should be using the m4 stuff to
compile
> a modified .mc file to get sendmail.cf. You would add the features
like
> -
>
> FEATURE(`always_add_domain')dnl
> FEATURE(`masquerade_envelope')dnl
> FEATURE(`allmasquerade')dnl
>
> Depending on your experience level with sendmail is going to dictate how
> complicated this will be. Generally, it's not too bad once you get over
> the initial hump, especially for a simplistic task such as this one.
>
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> I already have a user group that works, except that a group member does
> not get a copy of his own email when sent to the group,
> just everyone in the group gets a copy.
>
> mailman is a mail program I get off of the internet? majordomo, I get
> that off of the internet too?
>
> Robert
>
> Paul Anderson wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 4 Aug 2002, bobbya wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > A more difficult question is to have the return address be
> > > "groupname@xxxxxxxxxxxx" for all mail sent to the
> > > members in the group. All group members are OUTSIDE the domain of
> > > groupname's domain too.
> > >
> > It would probably be a good idea to setup mailman or majordomo.
> >
> > ---
> > Paul Anderson
> > geeky1!paul
> > "Nature has been kinder to us than we had any right to expect.
> > --- Freeman Dyson
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