On 14/01/2005, at 12:40 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
Glen Low wrote:
OK, is there some trivial MTA I can run e.g. procmail, would that be
suitable? How does Mailman actually retrieve the email meant to be sent
to [EMAIL PROTECTED] anyway?
Usually, the incoming MTA at domain.com runs on the same or a tightly coupled server as Mailman and via aliases pipes the incoming mail to mailman wrappers.
e.g. mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] is piped to .../mailman/mail/mailman post list mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] is piped to .../mailman/mail/mailman admin list and similarly for list-bounces, -confirm, -join, -leave, -owner, -request, -subscribe and -unsubscribe.
If the MTA runs elsewhere and you can retrieve the incoming mail with fetchmail and run it through procmail, you can use procmail to pipe it to the wrapper appropriately.
Thanks that was very helpful, shall try to see if that works.
More qns, especially since you seem to have the same sort of setup:
1. Can I get Mailman to send mail to an SMTP server on another machine?
2. Does Mailman require a FQDN for itself? (If I don't run a full MTA then it seems to me I don't need to have a domain name or static IP.)
3. The CGI's that serve as the web interface, do they require that the rest of the Mailman machinery be on the same machine?
Cheers, Glen Low
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