[CLUE-Admin] Re: almasterNew aliases and CLUE-Members list

[Lynn Danielson]

Ronald Kuetemeier wrote:

>Lynn Danielson wrote:
>  
>
>>I've added 35 new aliases to /etc/aliaes for the members that
>>have paid dues so far.  They're in a firstname.lastname format
>>and they simply point to the members preferred email address.
>>I also created a new mailman list CLUE-Members (for discussion
>>of membership benefits and activities) and added the above 35
>>members to it.  I'll plan to maintain it.
>>    
>>
>before you put hundreds (hopefully) of members in an alias file.
>You might want to consider exim or postfix as a MTA, both of which can
>handle db queries for RCPT TO: against postgres or mysql.  IIRC there is
>an example in postfix from an ISP which uses something like 'select
>FORWARD_EMAIL from ADDRESS where EMAIL = '$RECIPIENT' and STATUS =
>"active"' or something like it. Out of the example you can see that you
>can have all kinds of info in one db, like when the member joint when
>the forward will expire and ... This will also help to create some
>reminder email next year when renewal is due.
>Just something to consider.
>I would go with exim, since I'm working on an extension and it's more
>powerful and both dbs and some other are supported out of the box. Just
>a personal preference.
>

Thanks for the advice Ron.  My understanding is that our new CLUE server 
will be
running Debian and exim.  So, I suspect we'll set it up that way on the 
new box.  But
for now, continuing to use sendmail aliases is easy enough.

Thanks again,

Lynn