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 Majordomo
Majordomo
is a Perl program written
by Brent Chapman of
Great Circle Associates to handle routine administration of Internet
mailing lists.
Installing Majordomo
To install Majordomo, Telnet
or SSH to your Virtual Server and do the following:
- Install Perl 5
on your Virtual Server.
- Install the Majordomo file on your FreeBSD-based server:
- Change the permission on the directories usr,
usr/local, usr/local/majordomo
and usr/local/majordomo/Lists
to 755:
- In the majordomo.cf file,
change the definition of the
$whereami variable from
YourCompany.COM to your domain name (see line 2). You can
do this by using pico, a simple, easy to use UNIX text editor:
Feel free to edit any other configuration variable in usr/local/majordomo/majordomo.cf
to your liking.
- Edit your etc/aliases
and add aliases like the following:
#Majordomo Stuff
majordomo: "|/usr/local/majordomo/wrapper majordomo"
owner-majordomo: list_manager_e-mail_address majordomo-owner:
list_manager_e-mail_address
- Run the command vnewaliases
to update the aliases database:
Now that you have installed Majordomo on your Virtual Server, it would
be very wise to read the documentation before you attempt
to create mailing lists.
Interfaces
The Blue Reef Web Hosting Web Development Team has prepared a version of
the majordomo interface Majorcool to
be installed on the Virtual Servers.
There are various other Web interfaces to Majordomo available.
Alternatives
Majordomo is certainly not the be-all, end-all solution for managing mailing
lists. For example, Soft Ventures has developed a simple mail list server
for Windows 95 and Windows NT called SVList.
SVList is is a mailing list server designed for use with any PC running
Windows 95/NT and having a SMTP mail server (such as the one included with
your Virtual Server). Using SVList you can easily set up your own mail list.
Documentation
Majordomo is not for the faint at heart. Please review the following
files before you attempt to use Majordomo.
| NOTE: All
questions sent to the Support Staff with regard to Majordomo mailing
list configuration will be answered with a URL to this page. |
list-owner-info
has information for list owner to get them started using majordomo and
the config files.
majordomo.ora
This file is the chapter about Majordomo from the Nutshell Handbook
Managing Internet Information Services, written by Jerry Peek.
The chapter is (c) Copyright 1994 by O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., and
was included in the Majordomo distribution by permission of the publisher.
This chapter is a good introduction to setting up the majordomo software,
be warned that it does not cover much of the list operation details
under 1.90 that deal with config files. Then again the config files
are supposed to be self documenting. A newer version of this chapter
that has been updated for 1.90 is in the works, and should make it into
the "Managing Internet Information Services" book. This newer chapter
should be available via ftp in due time. Stay tuned to the majordomo-announce
or majordomo-users mailing list for details.
majordomo.lisa6.ps
The original Majordomo paper from the USENIX LISA VI conference in October,
1992. While this paper is somewhat out of date (some of the details
about how Majordomo works have changed, and many of the items mentioned
as "to be implemented later" have since been implemented), it remains
a valuable introduction to Majordomo's basic form and structure.
FAQ
The Majordomo FAQ.
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