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)
- Create a mailing list and configure settings.
/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
- Add mailing list to appropriate alias
Edit /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-mtech
- Add users to the mailing list - either use the web interface or commandline
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)
- Delete mailing list
/usr/lib/mailman/bin/rmlist -a mtech03
- Update email alias
Edit /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-mtech