Topic: qmail aliases to redirect to application questions

[John Lewis]

I'm trying to setup the listar MLM on my e-smith server

I created a user called listar
I've installed the rpm, moved the files from /home/listar to /home/e-
smith/files/users/listar/home, and created a symbolic link that
points /home/listar to that directory (just in case...)

Now...

In sendmail, I would just edit the /etc/aliases file, which covers all mail
aliases for the system (not sure abt. virtual domains though), with the
following lines:

     listar: "|/home/listar/listar"
     listar-owner: user@my.host.dom

Which creates an email alias that redirects the messages to the listar
application, and an email alias which redirect messages to a user

How can I do this on e-smith with qmail?

I've tried to understand qmail, the e-smith template customization, and read
Darrell's howto on aliases for virtual domains.  I still do not know how to do
it. Can someone please help.

I'll put together a howto when I'm done.

[Graeme Robinson]

john wrote:
> Quoting Charlie Brady > > Why don't you try ezmlm instead? There is a working contrib module for
> > installing and running ezmlm on your system. it's a little crude, but
> > you'd be more than welcome to fancy it up a bit.
>
> I'm currently using listar on another system for a big list of
> subscribers, and
> it has an easy to use web gui that assists with managing the
> lists.  Plus, its
> already in RPM form, something mailman and ezmlm are not, and I'm
> not yet ready
> to compile RPM's from source...


Actually no -  ezmlm (or more correctly ezmlm & ezmlm.idx) *are* in rpm contrib form and provide a list creation mechanism in the web manager.

Take a look at my howto for installation under 4.1.2 in the contrib section:
http://www.e-smith.org/cgi-bin/contrib.cgi