Chuck Campbell asked,
| I respect this, and understand their point of view, but is there any way to
| get the mail filtering capabilities without allowing the ability to run
| mailing lists?
Jon Lewis said you'd need aliases in /etc/aliases (or /usr/lib/aliases, or
wherever the aliases file is on your system) to run a mailing list the
conventional way, but I hate to say that you could, with less than 100%
performance, run a mailing list without aliases.
And as for running one with procmail but without SmartList, I run two that
way (one unmoderated, one moderated); on the other hand, my rcfiles are
annoyingly complicated and just about nobody else would do the silly thing I
did and write mailing list routines from scratch in procmailrc code. (And
they do have aliases in the system mail aliases file.)
Running a mailing list with procmail but without aliases and without
SmartList is difficult but possible; for that matter, so is running one
without aliases, SmartList, OR procmail. It's a big pain to maintain, a
bigger one to set up, and a resource pig that the sysadmins will notice
easily, so I don't think they have anything to worry about just from having
procmail, formail, and lockfile available.
David W. Tamkin dattier(_at_)wwa(_dot_)com MCI Mail: 426-1818
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