On Mon, 20 Jan 1997 21:43:00 PST Chris Guccio said: >I am currently a creator of many lists at my site. Whenever I create a list >I am told to create three aliases: > [log in to unmask] > [log in to unmask] > [log in to unmask] For completeness you should be creating two more as well: [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] nameoflist@... is the alias for the list itself. owner-nameoflist@... is the RFC821 MAIL FROM:<> address for the list and is the address to which all well-behaved mail daemons are supposed to send non-delivery notices. It maps to the "Errors-To-" setting for the list. nameoflist-request@... is a generic alias that points to all of the non-Quiet: list owners of the specified list. nameoflist-server@... is an old canonical alias that actually points to [log in to unmask] It's for people who don't know the server address for the specified list. nameoflist-search-request@... is something new for 1.8c. It is the address to which GETPOST commands are returned to. >When I do not create them it causes all sorts of problems. Yep, since if you don't create them, sendmail doesn't know what to do with mail that gets sent to them. QED; bounce bounce. For unix you can make all of these automagically with the Makefile, just by issuing 'make list name=listname' (where "listname" is the name of the list you are making aliases for). Naturally you have to have root permissions to do this as it modifies /etc/aliases and then runs 'newaliases'. Nathan