Mark Sapiro pushed to branch master at GNU Mailman / Mailman Core
Commits: 411decae by Mark Sapiro at 2021-12-29T17:32:30+00:00 More clarification of alias_domain. - - - - - 59a7c3c9 by Mark Sapiro at 2021-12-29T17:32:30+00:00 Merge branch 'doc' into 'master' More clarification of alias_domain. See merge request mailman/mailman!945 - - - - - 1 changed file: - src/mailman/docs/mta.rst Changes: ===================================== src/mailman/docs/mta.rst ===================================== @@ -223,7 +223,8 @@ domain that will be used for Mailman 3 lists is a `virtual alias domain`_ and for various reasons, perhaps because it supports Mailman 2 lists and Mailman 3 lists need to use the same domain, it must remain a virtual alias domain. This is a challenge because ``virtual alias domains`` do not use -``transport_maps``. +``transport_maps``. This section also applies if the domain is a `virtual +mailbox domain`_. In order to enable this configuration, Mailman `domains`_ have an ``alias_domain`` attribute. This is normally ``None`` but can be set to any @@ -231,7 +232,7 @@ otherwise unused domain name. The ``alias_domain`` is a fictitious domain that is not exposed in ``DNS`` and is only known to Postfix via the Mailman generated mappings. For example if the actual domain is ``example.com`` the ``alias_domain`` could be ``x.example.com`` or even literally ``bogus.domain``. -If this is done and the configured MTA is Postfix, Mailman will create an +If you set an alias_domain and the configured MTA is Postfix, Mailman will create an additional ``/path-to-mailman/var/data/postfix_vmap`` file with mappings from the ``example.com`` addresses to the corresponding addresses in the ``alias_domain`` and will use the ``alias_domain`` in the other files. @@ -269,6 +270,7 @@ and the documentation for the `relay_domains`_, `mydestination`_ and .. _`relay_domains`: http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#relay_domains .. _`mydestination`: http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#mydestination .. _`virtual alias domain`: http://www.postfix.org/ADDRESS_CLASS_README.html#virtual_alias_class +.. _`virtual mailbox domain`: http://www.postfix.org/ADDRESS_CLASS_README.html#virtual_mailbox_class Exim View it on GitLab: https://gitlab.com/mailman/mailman/-/compare/f9115fd2fa287a59c90461954f716c062a46ebe3...59a7c3c953d9c417b4fa3de887f35f2f6217086d -- View it on GitLab: https://gitlab.com/mailman/mailman/-/compare/f9115fd2fa287a59c90461954f716c062a46ebe3...59a7c3c953d9c417b4fa3de887f35f2f6217086d You're receiving this email because of your account on gitlab.com.
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