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1pollen - mailing list manager
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3pollen delivers posts to the subscribers of a mailing list, keeps an
4archive, and handles subscribe, unsubscribe and help requests sent by
5mail.
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8Requirements
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10In order to run pollen you need Postfix, or another mail server that
11can pipe a message to a program, and a sendmail command.
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14Installation
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16Edit config.mk to match your local setup (pollen is installed into
17the /usr/local namespace by default).
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19Afterwards enter the following command to build and install pollen (if
20necessary as root):
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22 make clean install
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25Running pollen
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27Add pollen as a pipe transport for the list domain in master.cf:
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29 pollen unix - n n - - pipe
30 flags=Rq user=pollen argv=/usr/local/bin/pollen ${user} ${extension}
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32and create a directory per list. See pollen(1) for the list files and
33the rest of the Postfix configuration.
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36Configuration
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38The configuration of pollen is done by creating a custom config.h
39and (re)compiling the source code.