On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 01:40:19PM -0400, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:
JRA> It seems pretty plain to me. Just expand the "list of lists" JRA> though a text filter that explodes the list names into what JRA> the doco says the alias entry needs to look like.That's not the difficult part. What I'm purposefully avoiding is having to install sendmail, and /test/ the interoperability. There are all kinds of dark corners lurking there that only someone who uses and knows sendmail well enough will be able to solve. As I've done for Postfix.
Ah.
JRA> Thought so. Forgive me, my revered senior hat, but that's a JRA> bad design. You've put yourself at their mercy by going JRA> behind their API...I disagree. Postfix documents all this, so I consider it part of their API. And the fact that they have alias_maps /and/ alias_databases shows that they intend for external applications to create and manage maps that Postfix will consult.
Oh. Didn't realize that. As JC notes, though, there's a problem in reverse.
>> cgi doesn't have that problem. E.g. if I want to create a new >> list on python.org, I'd visit >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/create but if I wanted to create >> a new list on zope.org (a virtual host of a shared Mailman >> installation), I'd visit http://mail.zope.org/mailman/create. JRA> Oh... mailman *does* get that right? Cool; missed that. JRA> If it knows that, though, how come my mails go out with the JRA> wrong From line? Doesn't it set the from line to the proper JRA> virtual domain? Or is my configuration wrong?That's almost invariably a sending-MTA configuration issue. I know for a fact that Sendmail used to munge From: headers according to its own whims. You could set all the headers properly to your hearts content, and if Sendmail was misconfigured, they'd be broken when the end user gets them.
I'll note that python.org and zope.org are a shared Mailman, virtual host arrangement, and it's all worked perfectly with both Postfix, and now Exim.
Noted. Which do you like better?
Cheers, -- jra
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