On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 11:59 -0600, Benjamin Mack wrote: > Hey everybody, > > I got a difficult (for me) situation here: > > I have a webserver with my domain and an outsourced mail server with a > company that set up my mail addresses (where I can create pop-accounts > through a web interface). > > Lately I wanted to set up a mailman installation on my webserver, with a > mailing list like "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". But mailman requires an MTA on > the system, but since the MTA for my domain is on another (for me not > configurable) mail server, I would just like to have something like this > on my webserver, since I do not want an extra mailserver there: > > * a program checks periodically for new messages on the pop-account and > then forwards it to the mailman
fetchmail is doing this. Just start it every 5 minutes with cron. fetchmail pops the mails from the pop3 server and feeds it to the local MTA which must handle mails for the domain correctly, of course. I don't know if there is a simpler solution for fetchmail+mailman. > * mailman evaluates and adds it to the list. > * outgoing mails from mailman are going through the already installed > default config sendmail You probably have to check and possibly let sendmail rewrite header fields correctly so that the From: etc. are correct. AFAIK see now it should work if the mailman machine actually feels responsible for the kirix.com domain as a whole (and perhaps for others too) - it just doesn't receive mails from the eth<x> interface. For local users you could forward local email to the pop-server via normal aliases. Alternatively you could simply relay all outgoing mails of kirix.com through the external mailserver and the external mailserver rewrites header and envelope addresses. > Has anybody experienced with that? Or is this something like a "don't do > that"-thing since I did not find manuals for that kind of situation? The problem is not really a mailman problem (or closely related) but more a "several MTAs problem". Bernd -- Firmix Software GmbH http://www.firmix.at/ mobil: +43 664 4416156 fax: +43 1 7890849-55 Embedded Linux Development and Services ------------------------------------------------------ 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