Mailman without localhost ?
Hello
The new operator of my hosting decided to remove localhost from whitelist in plesk outbound filter to prevent spam and blacklisting. Anybody knows any chance to use mailman another way ? MM is still installed (v2.1.18), but recently only woks delivering to server-internal adresses. The service guy said, there might by a chance using smtp auth.
I have no access to mm_cfg.py of my own, but perheaps the service assistant will do the job, if I give him information. (have a low price hosting)
In an older post M.Sapiro wrote: Mailman can use the sendmail (or other) command to deliver mail. ... but DON'T DO IT. See the documentation in ...Sendmail.py ... for reasons. But sadly I don't understand it.
Regards Kapuzino
On 03/13/2016 01:44 PM, kapuzino@web.de wrote:
The new operator of my hosting decided to remove localhost from whitelist in plesk outbound filter to prevent spam and blacklisting. Anybody knows any chance to use mailman another way ?
There are a couple of possibilities.
Mailman has two settings for the outgoing mail server that can be overridden in mm_cfg.py. The default settings are
SMTPHOST = 'localhost' SMTPPORT = 0 # 0 means use the smtplib default which is 25
These are for outgoing mail from Mailman only. They have nothing to do with delivery of mail TO mailman. You can tell Mailman to connect to any SMTP server and port by setting SMTPHOST to the fully qualified name of the server and/or SMTPPORT to the port.
If the host operator will perhaps set up and allow an alternative port for you to use without authentication, then Mailman can simply be configured to use that port.
If that isn't an option, but you can use an alternate port such as 465 or 587 that may require TLS and/or authentication, you can set SMTPPORT to that value, but you (or the host admin) will have to patch Mailman's SMTPDirect.py module to provide the authentication. You can find a patch for this at <https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/558281>.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
On 03/13/2016 01:44 PM, kapuzino@web.de wrote:
The new operator of my hosting decided to remove localhost from whitelist in plesk outbound filter to prevent spam and blacklisting. Anybody knows any chance to use mailman another way ?
There are a couple of possibilities.
Mailman has two settings for the outgoing mail server that can be overridden in mm_cfg.py. The default settings are
SMTPHOST = 'localhost' SMTPPORT = 0 # 0 means use the smtplib default which is 25
These are for outgoing mail from Mailman only. They have nothing to do with delivery of mail TO mailman. You can tell Mailman to connect to any SMTP server and port by setting SMTPHOST to the fully qualified name of the server and/or SMTPPORT to the port.
If the host operator will perhaps set up and allow an alternative port for you to use without authentication, then Mailman can simply be configured to use that port.
If that isn't an option, but you can use an alternate port such as 465 or 587 that may require TLS and/or authentication, you can set SMTPPORT to that value, but you (or the host admin) will have to patch Mailman's SMTPDirect.py module to provide the authentication. You can find a patch for this at <https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/558281>.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
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