Email Aliases & Mailing Lists

Following email aliases are defined on shakti. (/var/qmail/alias)

Email Aliasas

hod@aero

Head of department (Aero)

hod-casde@aero

Head of department (CASDE)

ttc@aero

Time-Table Coordinators

btech@aero

BTech students

mtech@aero

MTech students

dd@aero

DD students

phd@aero

PhD students

students@aero

All students

users@casde

CASDE Users

sysadm@aero

System Administrators

webmaster@aero

Web masters

listadmin@aero

Mailing list managers

Following aliases are created as mailing lists.

Mailing Lists

faculty@aero

Department faculty

prof@aero

Department Professors

dpgc@aero

Department Post Graduate Committee

dugc@aero

Department Under Graduate Committee

dssc@aero

Department Student Staff Committee (?)

staff@aero

Office Staff

project@aero

Project Staff

btech??@aero

Btech Batch (yearwise)

dd??@aero

DD Batch (yearwise)

mtech??@aero

MTech Batch (yearwise)

phd@aero

PhD Students

These aliases are maintained as mailing lists to prevent from email spamming. Any one from @aero.iitb.ac.in address can send emails to these mailing lists. Any mails sent from @iitb.ac.in domain will require list managers approval. Rest of the mails are rejected.

Managing Mailing List

To Create a mailing list (Example for mtech06)

/usr/lib/mailman/bin/newlist mtech06 listadmin@aero.iitb.ac.in <list-password>
/usr/lib/mailman/bin/config_list -o /tmp/mtech05.config mtech05
cp /tmp/mtech05.config /tmp/mtech06.config
Edit /tmp/mtech06.config to make required changes
/usr/lib/mailman/bin/config_list -i /tmp/mtech06.config mtech06

Edit /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-mtech

cd /home/users/mtech06
(for u in * ; do echo $u@aero.iitb.ac.in; done) | /usr/lib/mailman/bin/add_members -r - mtech06

To delete a mailing list (For example mtech03)

/usr/lib/mailman/bin/rmlist -a mtech03

Edit /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-mtech

EmailAliases (last edited 2009-12-27 09:58:11 by localhost)