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NAME

       newlist - Create a new, unpopulated Mailman mailing list.

SYNOPSIS

       newlist [options] [listname] [listadmin-addr] [admin-password]

OPTIONS

       -l language, --language=language
	      Make  the  list's preferred language `language', which must be the (mostly two letter) language code as found under /usr/share/mail-
	      man.

       -u urlhost, --urlhost=urlhost
	      Gives the list's web interface host name.

       -e emailhost, --emailhost=emailhost
	      Gives the list's email domain name.

       -q, --quiet
	      Normally the administrator is notified by email (after a prompt) that their list has been  created.   This  option  suppresses  that
	      notification and the prompting.

       -h, --help
	      Print a small help text and exit

SECURITY

       Including the admin-password on the command line is a small security risk if you have untrusted users on the system.

NOTES

       You can specify as many of the arguments as you want on the command line: you will be prompted for the missing ones.

       Every  Mailman  list  has two parameters which define the default host name for outgoing email, and the default URL for all web interfaces.
       When you configured Mailman, certain defaults were calculated, but if you are running multiple virtual Mailman sites, then the defaults may
       not be appropriate for the list you are creating.

       You also specify the domain to create your new list in by typing the command like so:

	   newlist --urlhost=www.example.com mylist

       where `www.example.com' should be the base hostname for the URL to this virtual hosts's lists.  E.g. with this setting people will view the
       general list overviews at http://www.example.com/mailman/listinfo.  Also, www.example.com should be a key in the VIRTUAL_HOSTS  mapping	in
       mm_cfg.py/Defaults.py if the email hostname to be automatically determined.

       If  you	want  the  email  hostname  to	be  different  from the one looked up by the VIRTUAL_HOSTS or if urlhost is not registered in VIR-
       TUAL_HOSTS, you can specify `emailhost' like so:

	   newlist --urlhost=www.example.com --emailhost=example.com mylist

       where `example.com' is the mail domain name. If	you  don't  specify  emailhost	but  urlhost  is  not  in  the	virtual  host  list,  then
       mm_cfg.DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST will be used for the email interface.

       For backward compatibility, you can also specify the domain to create your new list in by spelling the listname like so:

	   mylist@www.example.com

       where  www.example.com  is  used  for `urlhost' but it will also be used for `emailhost' if it is not found in the virtual host table. Note
       `--urlhost' and `--emailhost' have precedence to this notation.

       If you spell the list name as just `mylist', then the email hostname will be taken from DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST and the url will be  taken  from
       DEFAULT_URL (as defined in your Defaults.py file or overridden by settings in mm_cfg.py).

       Note that listnames are forced to lowercase.

       The list admin address need to be a fully-qualified address, like owner@example.com, not just owner.

AUTHOR

       Author  of  Mailman  is	the  Mailman  Cabal,  see  http://www.list.org/  for  information.  This  manpage  is  written	by Tollef Fog Heen
       <tfheen@debian.org> for Debian, but may be used by others.

SEE ALSO

       Mailman documentation on http://www.list.org/ and in /usr/share/doc/mailman.

								    2008-06-14								NEWLIST(8)