I'm running Gentoo on my server (just a personal home server) and I've installed QMail 1.03-r8 to handle smtp for the LAN. This has worked perfectly for a while now. I have been using a provider to handle the POP side of my mail for reasons of reliability (I don't want a power outage on my end to mean bounced messages for everyone trying to reach me). My previous host allowed me to set up mailing lists on their end (Mindospring) but I changed over to 1and1 and they do not offer a similar service so I decided to set up a mailing list service on my home server so I installed Mailman 2.1.4 on the same box as my QMail setup.
Here're my questions: 1) I want to be able to set up a "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mail account on the provider's side and let Mailman check it and treat it like a mailing list on my side. Is it possible to tell mailman to use remote pop accounts or must I be running a local pop service? 2) None of the primary Gentoo maintainers for Mailman seem to be using QMail. Therefore, when I emerged it I found myself loking at documentation that is mostly for people with different smtp services running. I am profoundly lost. I've never set up a mailing list service before. Can anyone point me to a decent how-to for QMail and Mailman? So far, I've added the mailman default aliases to the /etc/mail/aliases file. I could not, however, run newaliases, since apparently QMail doesn't install /usr/bin/newaliases. That would be installed if I were using ssmtp or something else, but as you all probably know, QMail does things...um...differently. I don't care about web presenses for the lists, or archives even. I just need the ablility to check a pop account and forward it like a mailing list (and of course alter the headers so that it acts like a mailing list as well). Is Mailman too much for what I need? Seems pretty powerful (and cool) so it was the one I wanted to install, but I'd hate to triple my work if there's a less powerful, but simpler and more approriate app out there. Any help you can provide would be appreciated. I really haven't a clue what I'm doing here. :-) -Tom Caudron ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
