gene wrote:

I have a lan with several machines on it. I've installed MM 2.1.14 on the unix host 'genesis' which also runs my apache server. In order to browse to genesis' web server from within the lan, I have to use something like: "http://genesis/mailman/listinfo" Using the fqdn (genesis.domain.net or domain.net) just times out.

Why? This would seem to be a network configuration issue, and fixing it would semm to be the "correct" solution to your problem.

Possibly an entry in /etc/hosts like

ip.of.mm.host genesis.domain.net

or even

127.0.0.1 genesis.domain.net

at least on the MM machine would be enough.

So when I tried to use cgi/create (web) to create a list, I got: "Unknown virtual domain: genesis"

So in mm_cfg.py I put the following:

DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'genesis.domain.net' DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'genesis.domain.net'

add_virtualhost(DEFAULT_URL_HOST, DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST)

The above are correct.

add_virtualhost('genesis.domain.net')

The above line effectively replaces

add_virtualhost(DEFAULT_URL_HOST, DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST)

with

add_virtualhost('genesis.domain.net', 'domain.net')

which is probably not correct if DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'genesis.domain.net' is what you want, so should be removed.

add_virtualhost('genesis')

That solved the virtual host problem, but now, when using cgi/create to create the list "test" I get:

'Illegal list name: test@' < note no domain name

Because

add_virtualhost('genesis')

is equivalent to

add_virtualhost('genesis', '')

which is clearly not what you want.

If add_virtualhost is given only one argument (web host) the corresponding email host is created by stripping everythig through the first '.' from the argument.

So I tried creating test with the fqdn and was told that the '@' was not allowed in the list name (makes sense). I was able to create the list using bin/newlist, bur it seems the newlist creates lists as private, not public, lists.

What do you mean by private vs public? There should be no difference except possibly for the web and email hostnames.

So... does anyone know how this script can be used locally as well as from outside the lan?

Use only the fully qualified domain name and fix your network so it works from inside the LAN.

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