Ok, so after reading all this it becomes clear to me that this is not going to be an easy fix..
If I understand all this correctly, there's no current feature that will allow mailman to send mail from the correct virtual domain's hostname, and not localhost.. correct? Let's say I have these mailing lists: "norwegians" on the domain "norway.com" - 1.1.1.10 "visitors" on the domain "sweden.com" - 1.1.1.11 "tourist" on the domain "denmark.com" - 1.1.1.12 The hostname of the server running mailman is "mailserver.europe.com" - with IP 1.1.1.100 When someone posts to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I would like emails sent from that mailing list to originate from mail.norway.com ie. 1.1.1.10, not mailserver.europe.com or 1.1.1.100. When someone posts to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I would like emails sent from that mailing list to originate from mail.sweden.com ie. 1.1.1.11. The mail alias for those 3 domains would be "mail". Any way to do this? How about passing the domain name for the list through to SMTPHOST when the email is sent and adding MAIL as the host name to make the FQDN...seeing as "MAIL" is a static naming scheme.....?? Maybe that's not even possible...sounds good in theory... Thanks so much for your replies... :) Jay Vaagen Certified Technician Abadata Computer Corporation, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 989 883 3411 Fax: 989 883 9313 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Popovitch Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 1:54 PM Cc: Mailman-Users@python.org Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Virtual sites Patrick Bogen wrote: > On 9/13/06, Jay Vaagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> How can I set mailman to use the MX record instead of localhost (or one >> static address) for sending mail? > I've added FAQ 4.72 > <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.072.htp> > as a simple answer for this. The problem with this approach is that Mailman will still only use the single specified mail server, rather than processing a list of mailservers defined as MX records for a DNS domain. It would be a nice addition if Mailman allowed SMTPHOST to be set to either an explicit host or a domain to be queried. Sendmail accomplishes this in mailertable by using these two formats: explict: mx6.somedomain.com lookup: [somedomain.com] Using the lookup method causes Sendmail to query DNS for the current MX host(s) and then traverse the list until it finds one available. -Jim P. ------------------------------------------------------ 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/jay%40abadata.com Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp ------------------------------------------------------ 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
