SmartList QuickStart
====================

Before creating mailing lists, we have to tell our MTA that "list" is
going to be a "trusted user". The way of doing this depends on the MTA we
are using. For example, if we are using the Debian sendmail package and
our /etc/mail/sendmail.mc file says:

FEATURE(use_ct_file)dnl

then it is just a matter of adding `list' (without the quotes)
on a single line in /etc/mail/sendmail.ct.


In short, to create mailing lists, you have to do the following:

*) Execute these commands:

cd /var/list
su list
.bin/createlist <listname>

*) add these lines to /etc/aliases:

<listname>: "|/var/list/.bin/flist <listname>"
<listname>-request: "|/var/list/.bin/flist <listname>-request"

where <listname> is the name of the list (for example, `debian-user').

*) Customize your list by editing /var/list/<listname>/rc.custom.
In particular, uncomment and define the X_COMMAND_PASSWORD line, so
that you will be the only person allowed to maintain the list remotely.

*) run newaliases.

*) zless Manual.gz, this was only a QuickStart :-)


Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org>
