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rubaka

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Registered: 2009-07-31

Posts: 12

Simple mailing list

I've been looking around a lot, and no matter how much i lurk the internets I can't seem to find a simple solution to my problem (maybe because of a cold google account (new laptop, new location)).

What I want is a really simple mailing list. People send mail to ONE address that in turn forwards the mail to ALL participants/group members on the mailing list. Nothing more. No need for fancy mailing list commands. If I can just specify the members manually that's sufficient (and preferred).

I've found majordomo which is like ancient stuff (last release 9+ years ago) and mailman. Trying to understand mailman seems to me like a full job occupation. Configuring that stuff probably takes longer than it takes for me to write something up on my own...

So...

If there is anyone that has any tips, I'm more than glad to receive them. Also if there is a good resource somewhere explaining how to set up courier+mailman without being too general I'm glad to read that too.

(If gmail just would have let me forward to multiple addresses...)

I'm really surprised if this area hasn't been covered before.

skanky

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From: WAIS

Registered: 2009-10-23

Posts: 1,847

Re: Simple mailing list

Try procmail. It will be able to do it, and I vaguely recall seeing some dicussion of using it for mailing lists somewhere - maybe the procmail mailing list. But it should be relatively simple to forward an email to a script that sends it to every email address in a text file, I'd have thought.

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dschrute

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From: NJ, USA

Registered: 2007-04-09

Posts: 183

Re: Simple mailing list

People send mail to ONE address that in turn forwards the mail to ALL participants/group members on the mailing list. Nothing more. No need for fancy mailing list commands. If I can just specify the members manually that's sufficient (and preferred).

If there *really* aren't any other requirements, you can specify multiple addresses in a .forward file.  So for example in the "mylist" user's .forward file you could specify :
joe@aol.com
john@gmail.com
mary@yahoo.com
etc...
Then any mail sent to mylist@yourdomain.org would go to everyone in the list.  It's crude, but it will do what you described...