On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Carrillo, Jesse wrote:

> Hello All,
> I'm new to the list.  Forgive me if this already been covered.
>
> How is everyone handling automating the addition of new list to the aliases
> file?  A co-worker and I have written a perl script which currently adds the
> new mailing list to the aliases file but sendmail keeps hanging after a
> couple of messages go through it.  If anyone out there has a better way of
> automatically updating the aliases please enlighten me.

We dealt with that issue by not having any list alias entries. We
accomplished this by moving to qmail from sendmail. One of the many nice
features of qmail is that it does not require any aliases for lists.