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["Todd Cole" <address@concealed>]

Harald,

Thank you very much for your assistance.  This is where we are at the
moment:

1)  We have been able to access Sympa using wwsympa.cfgi, and to create
lists and subscribe users.  Users receive a confirmation email from
Sympa when they are subscribed.

2)  Postings to the lists created in wwsympa.cfgi are NOT delivered to
users subscribed to the list.  (We receive an "action_succeeded" message
but the posting never arrives.)  When users attempt to post to a list
via email, they receive a message similar to the following:

"This is the Postfix program at host wheezy.ovcamex.com.

I'm sorry to have to inform you that the message returned
below could not be delivered to one or more destinations.

For further assistance, please send mail to <postmaster>

If you do so, please include this problem report. You can
delete your own text from the message returned below.

The Postfix program

<address@concealed>: unknown user: "test" "

Any thoughts on why the subscription confirmations would be delivered
successfully but the postings would not?  Thanks again for your help.

-Todd

Todd G. Cole 
Vice President and CIO 
Online Vacation Center 
1801 NW 66th Avenue, Suite 102 
Plantation, FL 33313-4534 
phone: (954) 377-6424
fax:     (954) 377-6368
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Harald Wilhelmi [mailto:address@concealed] 
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 6:12 AM
To: address@concealed
Subject: Re: [sympa-users] Initial List Creation

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
=========

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
=========

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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