manual creation (command line) of an ezmlm mailinglist

[manfred]

Hi FQ,

Is it possible to create mailinglists (ezmlm) with command line or with a script (PHP)? I would need this feature for a customer with a lot of various mailinglists. Or is it better to use PHP and MySQL to create/manage various mailinglists. Of course, I would respect FQs TOS and would store time, date, IP and confirmation within the database. ;)

Each mailinglist wouldn't have much subscribers. I estimate around max. 50 subscribers for one mailinglist.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Manfred

[Bruce]

Yes, it is possible to create a mailing list from the command line. The program to do this is "ezmlm-make", to be used as follows:ezmlm-make -airtu /big/dom/XDOM/SHELL/LISTNAME /big/dom/XDOM/SHELL/.qmail-LISTNAME LISTNAME lists.DOMAINReplace XDOM with your xdom name, SHELL with your login name, LISTNAME with the mailing list name, and DOMAIN with your domain name.

There are a myriad of options available to ezmlm-make to control the behavior of the created list. Run "man ezmlm-make" to see all of them. The command-line above turns on message archiving and indexing, remote administration, trailers on text posts, and only allows subscribers to post.

[manfred]

Thank you very much Bruce! :)