Majordomo List Creation

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This page describes how to create a new mailing list with majordomo.

1. Navigate to the directory which majordomo resides:

   cd /usr/local/majordomo

2. Enter the Lists directory:

   cd Lists

3. Here you will create an empty file with the name of your list. For example if we wanted to create a list called test-list, we would do:

   touch test-list

4. Next change the owner and group of this newly created file to majordomo

   chown majordom:majordom test-list

5. Set the file permissions of this file to 664 with:

   chmod 664 test-list

6. Next create a file with <list-name>.info, with your desired introduction text. Make sure this file has owner and group of majordom and file permissions of 664. Going with our test-list example, we would ceate a filed called test-list.info and put the list introduction text in it.
7. Next we need to add the aliases for the new list to the majordomo aliases file. In the majordomo directory should be a file majordomo.aliases. At the bottom of this page is an example with our list test-list. This alias also includes archiving once a month. If you want the archiving you will need to setup a folder in the archives directory of Majordomo named <list-name>, as in our case, test-list. You can refer to the majordomo NEWLIST document, posted at the bottom of the page for what exactly you need for an alias.
8. After adding your alias, run the newaliases command to update the aliases.
9. Lastly create a file in the Lists directory, named <list-name>.passwd. In this file put the password for the list.
10. Finally, make sure everything is owned by user majordom, group majordom, and writable by both owner and group (i.e., mode 664 for files and mode 775 for directories).
11. Send an email to majordomo with the following to generate a default config for the list.

    config <listname> <listname>.admin

12. From here on out you can add subscribers and or edit the list config using majorcool.

Official Majordomo NEWLIST documentation

Here is the document NEWLIST which comes with a majordomo installation. This document describes in detail how to create a new list.

Sample List Alias

Below is a sample alias entry in the majordomo.aliases file for a list name test-list.

#test-list list
test-list-owner:             greg@greatplains.net
owner-test-list:             test-list-owner
test-list-approval:          test-list-owner
test-list-request:           "|/usr/local/etc/majordomo/wrapper request-answer test-list"
owner-test-list-request:     test-list-owner
test-list:                   "|/usr/local/etc/majordomo/wrapper resend -l test-list -h sunflower.greatplains.net test-list-outgoing"
test-list-outgoing:          :include:/usr/local/etc/majordomo/Lists/test-list, test-list-archive
owner-test-list-outgoing:    test-list-owner
test-list-archive:           "|/usr/local/etc/majordomo/wrapper archive2.pl -f /usr/local/etc/majordomo/Archives/test-list/test-list -a -M"
owner-test-list-archive:     test-list-owner</prev>