The mailing list for listmasters using Sympa

[Michelle Murrain <address@concealed>]

At 2:39 PM +0200 6/19/03, address@concealed wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> I got some stupid questions:
>
> Sympa is running on my machine. I inserted a user into the database
> manually. Fine, I can login as this user and create a list and so 
> on. But how does
> the "master of universe" login? Is this guy defined in sympa.conf 
> the master of
> univers, meaning the listmaster?
>
> ## Who is able to create lists
> ## This parameter is a scenario, check sympa documentation about scenarios
> if yo
> u want to define one
>
> create_list     public_listmaster
>
> If so... where´s his password or how does he access the web interface?

If you go to the web interface and request a password, you'll get one 
you can then later change.

> My second question:
> When I create a list via web interface as the user who I inserted manually
> into my database, at the end I get the message:
>
> "Your list creation request is registered. You can now modify its
> configuration using the admin button but the list will be unusable 
> until the listmaster
> validates it."
>
> Probably this question refers to my first question: How does the listmaster
> validate it?
> I can see the list created under /sympa/expl
> But how do I validate it?

You can't create a list until you are logged in as the list master. 
So do the above, then you'll be able to validate the previous list 
request.

> I should also mention that I´m behind a firewall which does not allow me (or
> better: sympa) to send out any e-mails. But I´m sure there should be a
> manual way to handle list validation, etc. Probably the answers to 
> these questions
> are in the documentation, but obviousely I haven´t understood them.

Why would you do that? Why install list management software that 
can't send out mail?
--
.Michelle

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