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This is a guide for adding updating and maintaining the departmental lists.
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The following are the departmental mailing lists. Lists are valid ONLY when sending mail from clients WITHIN the department including when the client is proerly connected with a VPN connection.
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We have the following departmental mailing lists:
 
We have the following departmental mailing lists:
 
# '''csall:''' ''All staff studnents and faculty of the department''
 
# '''csall:''' ''All staff studnents and faculty of the department''
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# '''undergrad:''' ''All undergraduates of the department''
 
# '''undergrad:''' ''All undergraduates of the department''
 
# '''csstudents:''' ''All the computer science students''
 
# '''csstudents:''' ''All the computer science students''
 
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In order to update those lists the following steps must be taken according to the situation:
 
 
'''''A new user is just added to the system in an already existing group'''''<br>
 
Just run the makealiases script on the mailserver
 
 
'''''A new user added in a new group'''''<br>
 
First edit the aliasgroups file and put the new group in the appropriate list group<br>
 
Then run the makealiases script on the mailserver
 
 
'''''A New list needs to be created'''''<br>
 
Edit the aliasgroups file and add the name of the new list along with the appropriate groups (NIS groups) in the form<br>
 
''newlistname : nis_group1 nis_group2 ...''<br>
 
 
Edit the ''/etc/aliases'' file and add an include line with the newly created list in the form:<br>
 
''newlistname: :include:/path/to/newlistname''
 
 
Run the makealiases script<br>
 
 
'''''A user without a local account or email address needs to be added in a list'''''<br>
 
Go to ''manual'' directory under the ''mailaliases'' directory and add the user's
 
email address in the proper file ending it with a comma(,).<br>
 
 
Run the makealiases script<br>
 
 
 
[[User:Savvasn|nsc]] 11:28, 11 Απρίλιος 2005 (EEST)
 
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Revision as of 13:47, 15 January 2010

The following are the departmental mailing lists. Lists are valid ONLY when sending mail from clients WITHIN the department including when the client is proerly connected with a VPN connection.

We have the following departmental mailing lists:

  1. csall: All staff studnents and faculty of the department
  2. csfaculty: The department's faculty members
  3. csphd: PhD candidates of the department
  4. csmsc: Master students
  5. csresearch: All research students / colaborators
  6. csstaff: Secretarial and technical support personell
  7. cssupport: The Technical support team
  8. support: The same as cssupport
  9. undergrad: All undergraduates of the department
  10. csstudents: All the computer science students