Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman vs. Email Aliases

2006-10-05 Thread Mark Sapiro
Jon Forrest wrote: > >I didn't know that. I had read the following: > ># The "host_name" is the preferred name for email to mailman-related ># addresses on this host, and generally should be the mail host's ># exchanger address, if any. This setting can be useful for selecting ># among alternative

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman vs. Email Aliases

2006-10-05 Thread Jon Forrest
Mark Sapiro wrote: > > You have a more serious issue to contend with first and that is that > Mailman does not accept email addresses consisting of only a > local-part ('smith' in your above example). I didn't know that. I had read the following: # The "host_name" is the preferred name for emai

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman vs. Email Aliases

2006-10-05 Thread Mark Sapiro
Jon Forrest wrote: > >To show what I mean, I'll have something like this: > > smith: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > list1: smith > list2: smith > list3: smith > >So when smith moves to yahoo.com, I only have to >change the first line. > >However,

[Mailman-Users] Mailman vs. Email Aliases

2006-10-05 Thread Jon Forrest
I'm a new Mailman user. So far things are working OK. I just discovered a wrinkle that I suspect that other mailmen and mailwomen have faced. I follow good Sendmail/Postfix practice by breaking my email aliases file into two sections - one where I define a canonical email name for each person, an