Re: [Mailman-Users] what is a virtual domain?

2012-11-19 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Tue, 2012-11-20 at 00:53 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Lindsay Haisley writes: > > > It's not unusual at all. From the point of view of DNS, there's no > > difference between a virtual domain and a real one. > > Actually, that's not true. I re-read Thufir's question and realized that

Re: [Mailman-Users] what is a virtual domain?

2012-11-19 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Lindsay Haisley writes: > It's not unusual at all. From the point of view of DNS, there's no > difference between a virtual domain and a real one. Actually, that's not true. In the context of Mailman, the most important one is that an MX record must point to a real domain (ie, one with an A r

Re: [Mailman-Users] what is a virtual domain?

2012-11-19 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Sun, 2012-11-18 at 22:41 -0800, Thufir wrote: > On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 11:56:50 -0600, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > > > On Thu, 2012-11-15 at 19:38 -0800, Thufir wrote: > >> How does a virtual domain differ from a domain? > > > > To add to what Mark said, technically a "virtual domain" is a domain > >

Re: [Mailman-Users] what is a virtual domain?

2012-11-18 Thread Thufir
On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 11:56:50 -0600, Lindsay Haisley wrote: On Thu, 2012-11-15 at 19:38 -0800, Thufir wrote: How does a virtual domain differ from a domain? To add to what Mark said, technically a "virtual domain" is a domain name that resolves in the domain name system to the same IP address

Re: [Mailman-Users] what is a virtual domain?

2012-11-16 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Thu, 2012-11-15 at 19:38 -0800, Thufir wrote: > How does a virtual domain differ from a domain? To add to what Mark said, technically a "virtual domain" is a domain name that resolves in the domain name system to the same IP address as the primary ("real") domain name for your host. A server h

Re: [Mailman-Users] what is a virtual domain?

2012-11-16 Thread Mark Sapiro
Thufir wrote: >How does a virtual domain differ from a domain? As far as Mailman is concerned, there is no difference. GNU-Mailman 2.1.x can handle list addresses in multiple domains with the restriction that the list names themselves must be globally unique. In Mailman, in some contexts the var

[Mailman-Users] what is a virtual domain?

2012-11-15 Thread Thufir
How does a virtual domain differ from a domain? 6.1.2 Virtual domains Note: This section describes how to integrate Mailman with Postfix for automatic generation of Postfix virtual_alias_maps for Mailman list addresses. Mailman's support of virtual domains is limited in that list names must be gl