RE: [Mailman-Users] setting up mailman
Now correct me if I am wrong, but it would seem that you would be able to change the "Host name this list prefers" to whatever your want it to display on the from domain.
Here is the excerpt from the help...
host_name (general): Host name this list prefers. The host_name is the preferred name for email to mailman-related addresses on this host, and generally should be the mail host's exchanger address, if any. This setting can be useful for selecting among alternative names of a host that has multiple addresses.
I use this on a single machine where I have multiple domains that also use mailman for mailing lists.
Have a great day.
Chris Yeo Network Specialist Horizon Computer Solutions -----Original Message----- From: Christopher P. Lindsey [SMTP:lindsey@mallorn.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2000 1:19 AM To: rodolfo@linux.org.uy Cc: mailman-users@python.org Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] setting up mailman
> 1) my mail server (sendmail) is mail.domain.com and the mail
address > are @domain.com but the mailman uses @mail.domain.com How I can delete > the word 'mail' from the addresses of lists/owner/admin ??
You need to define your masquerade as host. Generally this is done
by changing the DM definition to something like
DMexample.com
in your sendmail.cf, then restarting sendmail.
> 2) the newlist show me a text to include into the /etc/aliases. I
have > just include it and run newaliases command, but when I write to an > owner-list@ I receive the following error return message: > > ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- > "|/var/spool/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner pruebas" > (expanded from: pruebas-admin) > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- > 554 "|/var/spool/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner pruebas"... unknown > mailer > error 2
Does syslog say anything extra, like "Failure to exec script. WANTED
gid x, GOT gid y"? If so, you need to recompile Mailman with the
--with-mail-gid=y
option to the configure script.
> 3) And when I reply to a subscription confirmation I receive a
local > configuration error:
That's because step #2 failed.
> 4) Is there are any hello_web_page for mailman? Or I need to
include > links at my portal_page to admin and listinfo CGIs??
Unfortunately, no. The closest thing that you can find is
http://www.example.com/mailman/listinfo
Chris
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Now correct me if I am wrong, but it would seem that you would be able to change the "Host name this list prefers" to whatever your want it to display on the from domain.
You can do it this way, but it's not the cleanest solution. It also won't work in an environment that already does masquerading improperly (if DM is set to hostname.example.com in your sendmail.cf, for example). In a case like that, the only thing that host_name changes is the value in your List-Id: and X-BeenThere headers.
If you have no control over your sendmail.cf, then it's definitely worth trying host_name (although I know that at my site and several others this feature is commented out to prevent user ignorance from messing things up).
But if anyone ever changes the masquerade host in sendmail, it will immediately override any of the settings specified in your Mailman config. For this reason I'm in favor of changing things only through sendmail when possible -- a canonical setting makes administration so much easier.
Have a great day.
I'll try... :)
Chris
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