Simple Mailing List with Sendmail

[Lisa Casey]

Hi,

Unless you can find a way to keep anyone else from sending mail to this list,  I don't reccomend doing this.

We tried this several years ago as a way to send an email to all of our ISP customers at once and quickly discovered that if one (or more) computer on the list had a virus then everyone on the list started receiving virus containing email. Now, of course, we stop viruses at the server level before they reach the mail boxes but even so, you can see how problems can crop up doing a mailing list this way.

There are better ways. Someone mentioned Mailman. Also, do your students pop their mail? If so, do you use Qpopper as your POP3 server? If you do, you might look at Qpopper's bulletins feature. That is how we solved this problem. 

Lisa Casey
 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: P.U.Kruppa 
  To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org 
  Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2006 7:40 AM
  Subject: Simple Mailing List with Sendmail


  Hi,

  I am experimenting with a simple mailing list setup for some (15 
  - 20) of my students, i.e. I put a line like this

  maths: user1, user2, user3, ..., /var/mail_archive/maths

  into my /etc/mail/aliases . The last entry produces a kind of 
  archive file.

  Does anyone know an - equally simple - method to exclude/block 
  everyone else from using this list? Of course, Sendmail users 
  different from maths shouldn't be affected.

  Thanks and regards,

  Uli.