Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2006 09:35:14 -0400 From: "Lisa Casey" <lisa@jellico.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Simple Mailing List with Sendmail Message-ID: <002401c6d414$c7fb56d0$d51a2cd0@lisac> References: <20060909133138.Y1108@www.pukruppa.net>
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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.=20 Lisa Casey =20 ----- Original Message -----=20 From: P.U.Kruppa=20 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org=20 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 - 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=20 archive file. Does anyone know an - equally simple - method to exclude/block=20 everyone else from using this list? Of course, Sendmail users=20 different from maths shouldn't be affected. Thanks and regards, Uli.
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