On Saturday, August 16, 2003, at 08:17 pm, Student wrote:
Is it possible to run Apache and Mailman on one server but use our existing Mail server (Sendmail) which is on another Redhat box and require authentication for outgoing mail ?
The installation notes say you must have some form of MTA running on the machine running Mailman to deliver incoming posts to Mailman's delivery script(s). Mailman is quite agnostic about what that transfer agent should be and any one of a number of MTAs can be used; see the READMEs in the source distribution.
If your main mail server and the mailman server used NFS to give both access to the file space Mailman uses then it might be possible for your Mail server to inject messages directly into Mailman's queues but this is not a configuration I have (yet) attempted but another reader of the list may have done; if so, please step forward.
It is simple configuration matter for Mailman to pass outgoing mail direct to an SMTP server on a machine other than the one it (Mailman) is running on. But what do you mean by 'require authentication for outgoing mail' in what you said above?
As a sanity check, the main site I manage Mailman for does not expose the Mailman server to the internet. All incoming (and outgoing) mail goes through dedicated mail relay machines that do the site's virus and spam checking on incoming and outgoing mail. The Mailman server's local MTA just gets and passes 'clean' incoming posts to Mailman from the site's mail relays.
i don't want to install sendmail on the same box with Mailman if i can just set up mailman to go through our mail server. i'm new to Linux and especially to Mailman. Thanks in advance for replies.
Regards
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