Distribution List Moderation

[davidz]

I am currently working to migrate our current email system (linux/sendmail) to Scalix. A feature that we would really like is the ability to moderate group email messages. Let me give an example:
We have on our current system an email aliaes that contains everyone's email. So if I send an email to 'everyone@domain.com' everyone one in the company recieves it. What we would like to do is moderate this and have any email send to everyone@domain.com go to a designated moderator first and if they approve of it, send it for delivery.
We've looked at Majordomo, does scalix have any of this type of functionality?

Second question is, if I have a PDL setup in Scalix called "IT Dept" and user1@domain.com sends a message to itdept@domain.com do the recipients see "itdept@domain.com" or "myusername@domain.com" and the TO address?

If these quesitons are confusing let me know, it's after five o'clock and my brain has already gone home....

[ScalixSupport]

David,

majordomo integrates nicely with Scalix. The functionality you describe is realy a majordomo feature, we do not provide moderator capabilities within Scalix. You certainly could implement a two-step process where you send a message to a mailbox which then forwards it on, but I think you want to go with majordomo + Scalix.

With regards to you second question, the people on the PDL will see both itdept@domain.com in the TO: field and user1@domain.com in the FROM: field. Does that answer your question?

Thanks,

Sascha.

[davidz]

That answers my question exactly! One other thing I've come across in my searching is GNU MAILMAN. Will this integrate just fine as well with Scalix?

[syn-]

majordomo integrates nicely with Scalix. The functionality you describe is realy a majordomo feature, we do not provide moderator capabilities within Scalix.
-snip-

Hi Sascha,
You said that majordomo integrates very well with Scalix, but could you possibly provide a little more information? Like what special configurations have to be made on the Scalix side to get everything working. Won't this require linking the Scalix alias files to the majordomo ones?

Thanks for the help,

-Lee

[Valerion]

I've gotten Mailman to work, and I am sure majordomo is similar. Scalix doesn't use an alias file.

Scalix passes all messages it can't deliver on to sendmail for processing, so all you need to do is to add the config for majordomo as usual to sendmail, verify it works, then run omsendin. Make sure you're using Scalix's SMTP relay, and you're set.

[syn-]

Good deal, thanks for the info. I'll give it a shot and update this thread to let everyone know if it worked or not.

-syn

[davidz]

I have GNU Mailman installed and that side working, but I can't get it Scalix and Mailman to work together. Since Scalix does not use the /etc/aliases file I am unable to fine what I am supposed to change in sendmail to make it work. All the documentation I can find on Mailman just talks about using the aliases file. Anyone have any suggestion?

[ScalixSupport]

Scalix does not "own" the domain. If there are incoming messages from the Internet, they first go thru the Scalix SMTPD. If there is not match in the Scalix directory, the message is then passed on to sendmail on localhost which then does whatever it needs to do. At that point aliases come into play. Just follow whatever docs you have for the sendmail setup and you should be OK. Come back with any specific questions you might have.

Cheers,

Sascha.

[davidz]

Thanks! That makes lots more sense.