Re: setting up mailing list using procmail

> small mailing list using procmail. i did the following:
>
> :0
> * ^TO(_dot_)*list(_at_)mydomain(_dot_)org
> {
>        :0 c:
>        list
>        :0
>        | (formail -A "Reply-To: list(_at_)mydomain(_dot_)org" \
>        -A "X-Mailing-List: Mailing List @mydomain.org") \
>        | $SENDMAIL -oi user1(_at_)somedomain(_dot_)com \
>               user2(_at_)someotherdomain(_dot_)com \
>               user3(_at_)yetanotherdomain(_dot_)com
> }
>
>
> the question i have is, is it going to be a big performance problem if i
> have like 500 users on this list?
It will when it causes a mail loop, which it will do as soon as a list
message bounces unless I'm missing something. Look in procmailex and
procmailrc for ways of using FROM_DAEMON and X-Loop to prevent loops.

I don't understand what the second recipe does, are you writing to a
lockfile named list? You don't need a lockfile, you aren't writing anything.


--Ken
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