Anne Anderson wrote:

We are running Mailman 2.1.9 on Linux SLES 10. The name of this server is mail.westmont.edu, so in mm_cfg.py we have these settings:

DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN = 'http://%s/mailman/' DEFAULT_NNTP_HOST = 'mail.westmont.edu' DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'mail.westmont.edu' DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'mail.westmont.edu'

This works fine for URLs to the administrative or user websites, but we get problems when people try to use the address links displayed on the website (i.e. on the listinfo page), because they show as ' listname@mail.westmont.edu'.

Our email addresses have the form 'listname@westmont.edu'. Up until recently, an address like 'listname@mail.westmont.edu' would also work, because the mail was being received by the mail.westmont.edu server and it recognized either format.

But we now have our mail hosted at Google Apps. Google has no problem delivering list mail as long as it doesn't have the "mail" in the address, but if a user tries to send a message by clicking on one of those links with "mail" in it, it gets bounced.

So, I'm hoping there is a way to set up the list address links to show as ' listname@westmont.edu' instead of 'listname@mail.westmont.edu', and still keep the 'http://mail.westmont.edu/mailman/whatever' URLs.

Is there a way to do this?

There are two ways to do this.

You can just change the lists' host_name attribute to westmont.edu, or you can fix mm_cfg.py by changing

DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'mail.westmont.edu'

to

DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'westmont.edu'

and then if you don't already have it following the

DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'westmont.edu' DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'mail.westmont.edu'

put

VIRTUAL_HOSTS.clear() add_virtualhost(DEFAULT_URL_HOST, DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST)

and then run

bin/withlist -l -a -r fix_url

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