Re: [Mailman-Users] Question about Mailman domain and OS X server set-up.

[Brad Knowles]

On Mar 28, 2011, at 1:31 AM, JRC Groups wrote:

> While discussing some possible DNS set-up issues I might need to resolve on
> my server a certain IT professional mentioned to me that Mailman shouldn't
> be run using a virtual domain. I am not sure if this professional was
> referring to virtual domains in general or only those running on Mac OS X
> Server.

In general, there are absolutely no problems running Mailman on a machine that 
hosts multiple virtual domains.  The machines at python.org do this today.  
While the official purpose of the machines is to serve the python.org domain 
and the mailing lists for this domain, there are lists for multiple other 
virtual domains that are also hosted there, and a single Mailman instance 
manages all those mailing lists just fine.

There are some issues you need to be aware of with regards to using a single 
Mailman instance to handle mailing lists for multiple virtual domains, which 
are detailed in the FAQ wiki.  But so long as you make sure that you don't ever 
try to create a mailing list by the same name in multiple different virtual 
domains that are handled by the same Mailman instance, there shouldn't be any 
major problems.


However, the version of Mailman as shipped by Apple has some significant 
differences from the official version of Mailman as we provide for download 
from the list.org site (and mirrors).

These issues are also covered in the FAQ Wiki, but the gist is that we cannot 
definitively provide answers for how the Apple-provided version of Mailman will 
work.  Since they modified the code that is installed, if you want support for 
the Apple-provided version of Mailman, you would need to go to Apple for that.  
We can give you our best guess for how we think things should work in those 
kinds of situations, but that's about the best we can do.

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[Mailman-Users] Question about Mailman domain and OS X server set-up.

[JRC Groups]

Hi Mark (Sapiro) and other members,


While discussing some possible DNS set-up issues I might need to resolve on
my server a certain IT professional mentioned to me that Mailman shouldn't
be run using a virtual domain. I am not sure if this professional was
referring to virtual domains in general or only those running on Mac OS X
Server.

Do you know if this is true ? Do you see any problems with Mailman running
from a Virtual domain ? Let me make this a little clearer. I have a Mac
server on a single IP address and host several domains. The primary domain
name (the one returned when you do a search on my IP address) is domain1.com
and the Mailman list is being run on domain2.com (one of several virtual
domains hosted on the same server).

Any Mac specialists on the list that know the answer to this question ?

Thank you in advance,


Joe


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