Set up mailinglist - nogalliance/sysadmin GitHub Wiki

Setting up a mailing list for a NOG

Note: Because of issues with the Mailman web interface we host all mailing lists under nogalliance.org.

Setting up a mailing list

  • 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 but ugnog-members for example)
  • Email is the address of the list administrator
  • Set or generate a password for the list admin
  • Save

Set up the list details

  • 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"

Set up the mailing list aliases

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.

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