Changing host names, revisited... DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST
The second question I have is about the DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST setting...
Currently, people send to my lists using listname@example.com and everything is working fine. But, while prepping for this change I found this commented section from someone's mm_cfg.py (these comments aren't in mine for some reason):
# For example, if people visit your Mailman system with # "http://www.dom.ain/mailman" then your url fqdn is "www.dom.ain", # and if people send mail to your system via "yourlist@dom.ain" then # your email fqdn is "dom.ain". DEFAULT_URL_HOST controls the former, # and DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST controls the latter.
According to this, my DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST should just be 'example.com', but it isn't, it is myhost.example.com - so why is mine working ok?
Thanks,
Charles
******************* My current and proposed new settings:
Defaults.py currently contains
And my current/recently edited mm_cfg.py - the commented settings/lines below are the changes I've added, in preparation for the change, and will just comment/uncomment the relevant ones to 'flip the switch':
On 5/2/2010 1:21 PM, Tanstaafl wrote:
The comments are in some downstream package. They aren't in the default GNU Mailman distribution.
According to this, my DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST should just be 'example.com', but it isn't, it is myhost.example.com - so why is mine working ok?
If you go to the list's listinfo page, what does it say the list posting address is? If it says listname@example.com, then either you had different settings when you created the list, or you changed the list's host_name attribute on the General Options admin page from myhost.example.com to example.com.
On the other hand, if the listinfo page says listname@myhost.example.com then all the email addresses Mailman generates for this list are @myhost.example.com. Now they probably work because
POSTFIX_STYLE_VIRTUAL_DOMAINS = ['myhost.example.com']
says generate virtual alias maps for Postfix for any list that has host_name myhost.example.com, so if Postfix is configured to use Mailman's data/virtual-mailman, mail sent to list addresses @myhost.example.com will be properly delivered.
Note that all DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST does is set the default host_name attribute for new lists. Once a list is created, it has no effect.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
On 2010-05-02 5:03 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
The list posting address is set to:
listname@myhost.example.com
The host name (in the web options interface) is set to:
myhost.example.com
Ok... so, apparently this is slightly broken, but working...?
I would strongly prefer to fix this properly.
Thanks for your help Mark, your courtesy and expertise never cease to amaze...
--
Charles
On 5/2/2010 1:21 PM, Tanstaafl wrote:
The comments are in some downstream package. They aren't in the default GNU Mailman distribution.
According to this, my DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST should just be 'example.com', but it isn't, it is myhost.example.com - so why is mine working ok?
If you go to the list's listinfo page, what does it say the list posting address is? If it says listname@example.com, then either you had different settings when you created the list, or you changed the list's host_name attribute on the General Options admin page from myhost.example.com to example.com.
On the other hand, if the listinfo page says listname@myhost.example.com then all the email addresses Mailman generates for this list are @myhost.example.com. Now they probably work because
POSTFIX_STYLE_VIRTUAL_DOMAINS = ['myhost.example.com']
says generate virtual alias maps for Postfix for any list that has host_name myhost.example.com, so if Postfix is configured to use Mailman's data/virtual-mailman, mail sent to list addresses @myhost.example.com will be properly delivered.
Note that all DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST does is set the default host_name attribute for new lists. Once a list is created, it has no effect.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
On 2010-05-02 5:03 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
The list posting address is set to:
listname@myhost.example.com
The host name (in the web options interface) is set to:
myhost.example.com
Ok... so, apparently this is slightly broken, but working...?
I would strongly prefer to fix this properly.
Thanks for your help Mark, your courtesy and expertise never cease to amaze...
--
Charles
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