[techtalk] How to setup my own listserv?

[Jenn V.]

Stephan Zaniolo wrote:
> 
>         I'm trying to setup a listserv using Mailman.  Do I need to
> install some sort of sendmail type program, or can I just install
> Mailman?  It's a Red Hat 6.2 box connected to the Internet with it's own
> IP and domain name.  Users on the box don't need e-mail accounts (they
> can ssh into another machine to send e-mail).  This box will just forward
> any mail it gets to the list.

Mailman manages the 'send-to-multiple-recipients' part of the job, but it
doesn't do the actual mail carrying.

The real-world analogy would be that mailman is the franking machine and
the 'mail-merge' program, but you still wind up holding a bunch of
envelopes and taking them to the post office.

Sendmail is the post office. (So's smail, postfix, etc..)

So yes, you need an actual mailer.




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