Hi, Please forgive me if my question is a display of ignorance. I've only very recently switched from ezmlm-idx to mailman and am still trying to get my head around the difference in concept. I've searched the FAQs and archives but wasn't actually too sure what exactly to use as search terms.
I have noticed that Mailman identifies lists by there names only but allows them to run in different mail domains. I realise that I can also have different domains and host names for the web interfaces. However, what I cannot find out for sure is if a site admin only exists per Mailman install or also per mail domain. In other words, can I have an admin who is allowed to create new lists (something I understand to be exclusively a site admin task) for a certain mail domain but not on other mail domains.
If I was running lists
test test1 test2
and they were reachable on test@lists.example.com, test1@lists.example.net, test2@lists.example.org could I have one account which can create lists in example.com, another one which can create lists in example.net and still another one which can create lists in example.org?
Also, is there a trick to have lists test3@lists.example.net and test3@lists.example.com simultaneously without needing to work with aliases somehow?
Cheers, Christian
On Mon, 21 Nov 2011, Christian Lerrahn wrote:
I have noticed that Mailman identifies lists by there names only but allows them to run in different mail domains. I realise that I can also have different domains and host names for the web interfaces. However, what I cannot find out for sure is if a site admin only exists per Mailman install or also per mail domain.
Certainly in the regular release Mailman, site admin is per install. You could achieve what you want by having multiple Mailman installations, one per domain.
Also, is there a trick to have lists test3@lists.example.net and test3@lists.example.com simultaneously without needing to work with aliases somehow?
There is a patch for being able to do this IIRC, but not in stock unpached Mailman. Apparently this will be possible in Mainman 3.
Geoff.
Geoff Shang wrote:
On Mon, 21 Nov 2011, Christian Lerrahn wrote:
I have noticed that Mailman identifies lists by there names only but allows them to run in different mail domains. I realise that I can also have different domains and host names for the web interfaces. However, what I cannot find out for sure is if a site admin only exists per Mailman install or also per mail domain.
Certainly in the regular release Mailman, site admin is per install. You could achieve what you want by having multiple Mailman installations, one per domain.
Multiple instances will also allow the same list name in different domains and is the recommended way to do this with Mailman 2.1.
Also note that you can also set an installation/instance global list creator password to allow people to create lists without giving them the keys to the kingdom.
Also, is there a trick to have lists test3@lists.example.net and test3@lists.example.com simultaneously without needing to work with aliases somehow?
There is a patch for being able to do this IIRC, but not in stock unpached Mailman. Apparently this will be possible in Mainman 3.
Yes, MM 3 supports lists with the same name in different domains. There are at least two approaches to patching Mailman 2.1 to do this: <https://code.launchpad.net/~msapiro/mailman/vhost> and <https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/558126>, but as I said above, the recommended way is multiple Mailman instances.
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