The mailing list for listmasters using Sympa

[Harald Wilhelmi <address@concealed>]

Hi,

On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 09:53:34PM +0100, address@concealed wrote:
> Can someone provide me with a simple 1-2-3 on how to create an initial
> list?  I have looked through the Sympa documentation and also searched
> Google Groups but have been unable to locate what I believe is a pretty
> simple step.

Methode A
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Use WWSympa. 
1) Ask WWSympa to send you your listmaster-Password.
2) Login as Listmaster.
3) Select List create button (just on top of the page, right to the logout
   button) to get the list creation request form.
4) Fill out the missing data and confirm it.

Mostly the same procedure is possible for normal users in the default
configuration, but a confirmation is needed by the list master
(WWSympa or a email command).

Methode B
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The manual way. Most useful if you have migrate a large number of lists
from some other mailing list system or simular.

1) cd ~sympa/expl
2) mkdir list-name
3) cd list-name
4) Create a file config there. You may find some nice starting points
   in ~sympa/bin/etc/create_list_templates/*/config.tpl.
5) Add some more files there if you like:
   * info (may contain list discribtion)
   * message.footer
   * welcome.tpl
6) If you have configured archives, create a directory to put them in:

        mkdir archives

7) Be sure that anything is accessible (including write permission) for
   for sympa/sympa:

        chown sympa *
        chgrp sympa *
        chmod u+w *

Now you can add users. Sometimes I needed to take some manual steps
in ~sympa/arc to make the archiver working. But I just can't remeber
under wich cirumstancers that happened. However this will become obvious
if you look into the syslog messages while sending your first test
emails.

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