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/mailman.

       -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 VIRTUAL_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)