Set up mailinglist - nogalliance/sysadmin GitHub Wiki
Note: Because of issues with the Mailman web interface we host all mailing lists under nogalliance.org
.
- Log in to admin.nogalliance.org
- In the top menu select "Email"
- In the left menu select "Mailing list"
- Click the green button "Add new record"
- Select the Client account of the NOG
- Select
nogalliance.org
as the domain name (using other domain names will break!) - Use a listname that contains the name of the NOG (so don't use
members
butugnog-members
for example) - Email is the address of the list administrator
- Set or generate a password for the list admin
- Save
- Go to the mailing list admin at
https://nogalliance.org/cgi-bin/mailman/admin/<listname>
, for example https://nogalliance.org/cgi-bin/mailman/admin/ugnog-members - Log in with the list password you created in the previous step
- Feel free to change the capitalisation of the
real_name
(change capitalisation only) - Feel free to add/change the administrator email addresses under
owner
- Feel free to set a
description
- Feel free to change the
subject_prefix
- The rest can be changed as well, but usually the defaults are good enough for now
- At the bottom click "Submit Your Changes"
Because we always use nogalliance.org
as the domain name the NOG probably wants to have an alias for the list under their own domain name(s).
- Go to the mailing list admin at
https://nogalliance.org/cgi-bin/mailman/admin/<listname>
and log in - Under "Configuration Categories" select "Privacy options..."
- Under "Privacy options..." select "[Recipient filters]"
- Under
acceptable_aliases
add any other email address for this mailing list (like[email protected]
etc) - At the bottom click "Submit Your Changes"
If we are hosting the email for the NOG then we also need to configure the forwarding to the <listname>@nogalliance.org
address. Configure that using the forwarding rules using <listname>@nogalliance.org
as the destination.