Dept's Mailing lists

This is a guide for adding updating and maintaining the departmental lists. We have the following departmental mailing lists:

• csall: All staff studnents and faculty of the department
• csfaculty: The department's faculty members
• csphd: PhD candidates of the department
• csmsc: Master students
• csresearch: All research students / colaborators
• csstaff: Secretarial and technical support personell
• cssupport: The Technical support team
• support: The same as cssupport
• undergrad: All undergraduates of the department
• csstudents: All the computer science students

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
Just run the makealiases script on the mailserver

A new user added in a new group
First edit the aliasgroups file and put the new group in the appropriate list group
Then run the makealiases script on the mailserver

A New list needs to be created
Edit the aliasgroups file and add the name of the new list along with the appropriate groups (NIS groups) in the form
newlistname : nis_group1 nis_group2 ...

Edit the /etc/aliases file and add an include line with the newly created list in the form:
newlistname: :include:/path/to/newlistname

Run the makealiases script

nsc 11:28, 11 Μάïος 2005 (EEST)