Gordon Smith wrote:
To explain my circumstance. I am a visually impaired person, trying to get to grips with administrating a mail server under Apple Mac OS X 10.5.7 (Leopard) server.
I need to host mailing lists under virtual domains hosted on our server but can't see quite how this is accomplished.
Is there anywhere I can obtain this information as Apple's documentation on this subject seems poor from what I've seen.
Gordon,
Unfortunately, our documentation of virtual hosts with Mailman is probably no better than Apple's. Also, I'm not sure how accessible it is to a visually impaired person. Finally, most of us know nothing about Apple's GUI for Mailman. We are familiar only with our own web interface and configuration methods.
That said, virtual hosting within Mailman is pretty simple. Mailman keeps a web host and an email host for each list, so list's can have email addresses and or web addresses in different domains. There is one possibly major restriction. List names must be globally unique within an installation.
Within Mailman, there is very little configuration for virtual hosts. There is a DEFAULT_URL_HOST and a corresponding DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST. Beyond that, you add additional hosts with entries like
add_virtualhost('www.example.com', 'mail.example.com')
in mm_cfg.py for each host. The purpose of this is primarily so when you go to a URL like http://www.example.com/mailman/create to create a list, it gets created with the corresponding email host.
There is also a bit more configuration if Postfix is your MTA to make Postfix integration work with virtual domains. This is described in section 6.1 of the installation manual at <http://www.list.org/mailman-install/index.html>.
The rest is in the MTA, and possibly the web server, although (assuming Apache) if the Mailman specific Alias, ScriptAlias and Directory settings are in a global section of the configuration, the web server will probably work OK without change.
Most of the documentation we have is in the above referenced installation manual and the FAQ at <http://www.list.org/mailman-install/index.html>
Please don't hesitate to post any followup questions to <mailman-users@python.org>.
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