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Add mailing list capabilities to your Qmail server with ezmlm. Includes web-accessible list archives and administration.

ezmlm-0.53 provides basic message distribution, subscriber address handling, message archiving (single quoted message retrieval only), and bounce handling.

ezmlm-idx adds multi-message threaded archive retrieval, digests, remote administration, message and subscription moderation, subscriber-only restrictions, message trailer, subject prefix, subscriber name storage, customizable setup, multi-language and MIME support and more. In addition, improved bounce handling, case-insensitive subscriber address storage, and support for distributed lists (main + sublist transparent to the subscriber).

Installation
Download the ezmlm source tarball:

cd /extra/src
wget http://cr.yp.to/software/ezmlm-0.53.tar.gz
tar zxf ezmlm-0.53.tar.gz
cd ezmlm-0.53

Deal with the pesky errno issue:
sed -i '/extern int errno/{s/^/\/* /;s/$/ *\//;G;s/$/#include <errno.h>/;}' error.h

The GCC in CentOS 5.x has issues with a log() function that needs to be adjusted. Edit ezmlm-manage.c and ezmlm-return.c and add:
#include “log.h”

Build and install the programs:
make && make man
make setup

Download the ezmlm-idx tarball, latest stable version was 7.1.1:
cd /extra/src
wget http://www.ezmlm.org/archive/7.1.1/ezmlm-idx-7.1.1.tar.gz
tar zxf ezmlm-idx-7.1.1.tar.gz
cd ezmlm-idx-7.1.1

Compile the programs and manpages:
make clean
make; make man

Test the programs:
./ezmlm-test

Copy the binaries and man pages to the correct locations:
make install

qmailadmin should be recompiled to support ezmlm.

Setting up a Mailing List
To create a mailing list, use ezmlm-make:

/usr/local/bin/ezmlm/ezmlm-make /home/vpopmail/domains/<domain>/<listname> \
    /home/vpopmail/domains/<domain>/.qmail-<listname> \
    <listname> <domain>
chown -h vpopmail.vchkpw /home/vpopmail/domains/<domain>/.qmail-<listname>
chown -R vpopmail.vchkpw /home/vpopmail/domains/<domain>/<listname>

Want to change the options? RTFM. Though after reading that, you might decide to just use qmailadmin to manage your mailing lists!