[Mailman-Users] Issues With "Host name this list prefers for email."

I recently configured virtual domains on my Mailman/Postfix set-up. It's mostly running fine, but there are a couple of small details that I think might be related to the "Host name this list prefers for email" setting.
As you can see from the sample header from a message sent to the Test5 list (below), some of my domain/host names are different from others--despite the fact that "Host name this list prefers for email" is set to the virtual domain, www.cinemastudies.org. Everything should point to www.cinemastudies.org , and almost everything DOES, with the exception of two lines.
The first header problem is:
To: test5@jbutler4.tcf.ua.edu
The virtual domain, www.cinemastudies.org, is an alias for the canonical name, jbutler4.tcf.ua.edu. Is there a way to change this from jbutler4.tcf.ua.edu to www.cinemastudies.org in the TO line?
The second is:
List-Archive: <http://www.tcf.ua.edu/pipermail/test5>
The list archive actually works properly and is accessible at http://www.cinemastudies.org/pipermail/test5/ . Any thoughts as to why the header is confused about this?
Thanks!
---- sample header ----
X-Original-To: test5@www.cinemastudies.org Delivered-To: test5@www.tcf.ua.edu X-Sender: jbutler@bama.ua.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 11:12:29 -0600 To: test5@jbutler4.tcf.ua.edu From: Jeremy Butler <jbutler@ua.edu> Subject: [Test5] Fwd: Welcome to the "Test5" mailing list X-BeenThere: test5@www.cinemastudies.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 List-Id: <test5.www.cinemastudies.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://www.cinemastudies.org/mailman/listinfo/test5>, <mailto:test5-request@www.cinemastudies.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://www.tcf.ua.edu/pipermail/test5> List-Post: <mailto:test5@www.cinemastudies.org> List-Help: <mailto:test5-request@www.cinemastudies.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://www.cinemastudies.org/mailman/listinfo/test5>, <mailto:test5-request@www.cinemastudies.org?subject=subscribe> Sender: test5-bounces@jbutler4.tcf.ua.edu
Jeremy Butler jbutler@ua.edu
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I'm a UNIX newbie so please go easy on me ...
I have installed Mailman and it is running. Likewise - I was able to get SendMail turned off and have EIMS now running on my OS X machine (10.2.4).
Can anyone give me a quick hint as to how I get the two of these products to communicate with each other on the same server? I presume that I will need to route mail from EIMS to Mailman - but what is the destination IP/Port?
Likewise - MailMan is not sending messages out so I presume it needs to connect to EIMS somehow.
Thanks for your help!
Dean

I've never heard of EIMS but if it is Sendmail compliant then it should work with Mailman.
Check to make sure that EIMS answers an SMTP call to localhost: telnet localhost 25
If that command just stares back at your blankly and doesn't respond, then your MTA (EIMS) is not listening on localhost for mail delivery. If it responds back then you might be in good shape.
Now look for how to setup Aliases in EIMS, specifically Aliases that will run an executable. EIMS will need to know that when mail for mylist@localhost comes in, that it needs to be delivered to the Mailman wrapper program. Aside: when you create a list using the ~mailman/bin/newlist command, it will print out a list of aliases that need to be setup in your MTA.
If that is working, then you need to make sure that Mailman is setup correctly to interpret what system Group ID EIMS is running as (some MTA's run as root, some as "mail", others don't use a GID). Mailman has some built in security that checks the GID for anyone calling the wrapper program. The wrapper executable will only run if it is being run by someone (or something) with the proper Group ID. If this is a problem you will usually find an error in the MTA's log files indicating that "wrapper" refused to run and gave an error that the GID was incorrect.
Hope that shines some light onto your quest. Good Luck - Jon Carnes ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dean Suhr" <deansuhr@carpedis.com> To: "Mailman" <mailman-users@python.org> Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 8:53 PM Subject: [Mailman-Users] Installing Mailman with EIMS Mail Server - OS X
I'm a UNIX newbie so please go easy on me ...
I have installed Mailman and it is running. Likewise - I was able to get SendMail turned off and have EIMS now running on my OS X machine (10.2.4).
Can anyone give me a quick hint as to how I get the two of these products to communicate with each other on the same server? I presume that I will need to route mail from EIMS to Mailman - but what is the destination IP/Port?
Likewise - MailMan is not sending messages out so I presume it needs to connect to EIMS somehow.
Thanks for your help!
Dean
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