Lucio Chiappetti wrote: > >- all our e-mail are of the form user@domain > NOT user@host.domain
OK >- all outgoing mail is masqueraded as user@domain by sendmail OK >- the DNS advertises two MX's for the domain. We do not advertise MX's for > particular hosts. Hosts other than MX's should have the SMTP port > blocked by a firewall on the boundary router (we are several institutes > in the same building, the boundary router is not managed by ours). OK [...] > >- mailman will be installed on a given host (I call it mmhost for the > purposes of this mail, but the real name will be different). Most > likely it will be our www server (www.domain where www is a CNAME > for its real host name), NOT the MXs (the two MXs are redundant, > and are also the primary and secondary DNS and NIS servers). If it is not the www server, you can use one of the methods in FAQ 4.84 >- I know now that DEFAULT_URL_HOST shall point to www.domain (or > perhaps a dedicated virtual www server) > >- I know now that DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST can be set to "domain" to make > lists and service addresses of the form "list@domain" > (preferred to list@mmhost.domain) > >- I know from my tests how to coerce sendmail and mailman to use (and > automatically create) LOCAL aliases of the form > > listname: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post listname" > > but of course THESE aliases are not suitable to be NIS aliases. > /usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman won't exist on the MXs and on the > clients ! But it is trivial to augment your script that copies Mailman's aliases for sendmail by adding something like sed -r -e "s/^(.*):.*$/\1: \1@mmhost.domain/" < /path/data/aliases > ... plus the command(s) necessary to install those in NIS. [...] >PS >I read also FAQs 4.84 and 4.72. Any more suitable for our configuration ? I think those are good. -- Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
