How to configure sendmail for mailing list usage.

[Paul Mancillas]

How can I configure sendmail so that only certain users can use an alias for a mailing list? For example, if the alias is "users@test.com" how do I configure sendmail so that only "bob@junk.com" and "tim@stuff.com" can send email to this "users" address? Email from all other users that attempt to send to this address should be rejected. Thanks.

[Ken Hunter]

You should fetch the package called 'majordomo' and install it. Then you can setup a mailing list of one or more recipients. In the configuration, you can specify the posting restrictions for that list (ie, open, closed, restricted to a certain list of email addresses).

I'm pretty sure sendmail by itself won't do mailing lists.

Good Luck,

Ken :)

[Chris Calabrese]

This is correct. Sendmail by itself will not do lists. And Majordomo is one of the more popular packages for adding this function.