Bob Puff@NLE wrote:
the virtual file should indeed contain the hostname. The aliases file should not. These are two separate files, both of which are necessary.
I mostly agree with you, but your solution won't allow true virtual hosting (having test@domain1.com and test@domain2.com be separate lists running on the same machine/mailman instance).
Maybe something like this modified example?
data/virtual-mailman:
mailman@nle.com mailman_at_nle_com mailman-admin@nle.com mailman-admin_at_nle_com ...etc...
data/aliases:
mailman_at_nle_com: "|/home/mailman/mail/mailman post mailman@nle.com mailman-admin_at_nle_com: "|/home/mailman/mail/mailman admin mailman@nle.com ...etc...
This of course begs the questions of how mailman distinguishes between the lists (what's the appropriate argument to the mailman binary, and whether there are any characters besides "." that are disallowed in domain names (what is a good encoding to use as a valid local address)?
-Dale