Hi Mark, many thanks for the reply. Will start the test with this info.
Oliver Mark Sapiro wrote: >>Oliver Schulze L. wrote: >> >> >> >>>Hi, >>>I have this question: >>>There are 2 list, mine and another one in majordomo. >>> >>>I want that if someone post an email to the majordomo list, a copy >>>is sended to my mailman list. >>>It would be like my list is subscribed to the majordomo list. >>>I worry about duplicating email and infinite loops, thats why >>>I have not tested it yet. >>> >>> > >Caveat: I don't know majordomo. > >You can subscribe your Mailman list to the majordomo list. So far there >is no loop. Your issues are: >- users who are members of both list get duplicates of posts to the >majordomo list. >- you have to set up your Mailman lists to accept the messages from >majordomo. This can be tricky. You may need to subscribe the "envelope >sender" of the majordomo list to your Mailman list with delivery >disabled. > > > >>>If this works, then it would be nice to implement the other way: >>>if someone post in my mailman list, a copy is sended to the majordomo list. >>> >>> > >Now you have the complement of the above situation plus a potential >loop. Mailman adds an X-BeenThere: header with the list address in it >to prevent looping. Thus when you post to Mailman and the post goes to >majordomo and then comes back to Mailman, the X-BeenThere: will >prevent it going out a second time *provided* that majordomo hasn't >munged it. > >Assuming majordomo does nothing to prevent looping (I said I don't kmow >majordomo), the above works for a post to Mailman, but a post to >majordomo would go to Mailman and be sent to majordomo a second time >and go out from majordomo a second time before being discarded by >Mailman because of the X-BeenThere:. > >If majordomo has loop prevention that doesn't conflict with Mailman >(Mailman is OK with multiple X-BeenThere: headers), then there should >be no loops. > >The worst possibility is if majordomo has no loop protection *and* >strips Mailman's X-BeenThere:. Then you'd have an infinite loop. > >You need to check this with someone who knows majordomo *and* test it >first with small test lists. > >-- >Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, >San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan > > -- Oliver Schulze L. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org 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/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
