It doesn't look like sendmail is the greatest MTA for use with Mailman. What is a good MTA that seems to work well with Mailman?
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-----Original Message----- From: J C Lawrence [mailto:claw@kanga.nu] Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 9:11 PM To: Mike T. Gholson Cc: Chuck Moss; seawolf-list@redhat.com; mailman-users@python.org Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: mailman on RH7.1 still having problems
On Thu, 31 May 2001 16:26:48 -0700 Mike T Gholson <mike@mgdesign.net> wrote:
I see that mailman uses sendmails aliases file. In theory, should a new list be added to the aliases file every time a new list is created?
Depending on your MTA and its configuration, yes, this is true. Some MTAs, such as Exim and Postfix, can be configured to not need a list alias file at all.
My mailman configuration is not adding the appropriate list name to the aliases file. Could this be a permission problem?
No. You need to manually add the aliases as provided by newlist.
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On Thursday, May 31, 2001, at 09:22 PM, Mike T. Gholson wrote:
It doesn't look like sendmail is the greatest MTA for use with Mailman. What is a good MTA that seems to work well with Mailman?
Sendmail works fine. But if you're not committed to sendmail, look at postfix
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I've had good results with both Postfix and Exim.
-- Juha
:: -----Original Message----- :: From: mailman-users-admin@python.org :: [mailto:mailman-users-admin@python.org] On Behalf Of Mike T. Gholson :: Sent: Friday, 1 June 2001 16:22 :: To: J C Lawrence :: Cc: mailman-users@python.org :: Subject: [Mailman-Users] A good MTA program? :: :: :: It doesn't look like sendmail is the greatest MTA for :: use with Mailman. What is a good MTA that seems to work :: well with Mailman? :: :: [m] ::
On Thu, 31 May 2001, Mike T. Gholson wrote:
It doesn't look like sendmail is the greatest MTA for use with Mailman. What is a good MTA that seems to work well with Mailman?
I've had good luck with Sendmail (when my lists were smaller), Postfix, and now I'm using the Windows 2000 SMTP Service. One of the big advantages to the Windows 2000 SMTP Service over Sendmail, Postfix, or most other Unix-based MTAs is that it can be processing and sending a single message to many domains at a single time. This allows me to set my batching numbers much higher, and reduces bandwidth utilization on my connection.
Postfix is my favorite Unix MTA, primarily for the concise and helpful documentation, ease of setup, and good performance.
alex
It doesn't look like sendmail is the greatest MTA for use with Mailman. What is a good MTA that seems to work well with Mailman?
Since it hasn't been mentioned yet... I have found qmail to be a very good MTA and Mailman works well with it. You get the added advantage that you can run some lists (where the web interface is important) with Mailman and other lists (where you need to get very high performance with limited resources) with Ezmlm.
Greetings, Norbert.
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