Virtual Email Hosting with Mailman
We have a situation where our main co-lo server (running RH Linux 6.1) runs mailman for our primary website (tenant.net). We want to set up mailman for another one of our web sites (hellskitchen.net -- that resides on a different server in a different location - a virtual website residing on adsight.com, running FBSD). We decided to keep the hellskitchen on its web server, but move its mail operations over to our tenant.net server.
We changed the hellskitchen MX record to point to tenant.net, changed sendmail.cw, virtusertable, genericstable and aliases to reflect this change. We now receive Hellskitchen email on the TenantNet server and use TenantNet's sendmail to send outgoing mail. Seems to work OK. We also created a user "kitchen" to receive the hellskitchen.net email and used CHFN to help the mail client.
Seems to work OK. Except for the headers that reflect the TenantNet origination, the mail appears to come from and goes to hellskitchen.net.
So we set up a HKtest list (we were root when we used newlist), inserted new aliases and added the new aliases to the virtusertable (this was necessary and not really documented well).
The problem now appears to be that in setting up a new list, mailman wants to set up the various web URLs to point to tenant.net.
http://tenant.net/mailman/admin/hktest (this is OK as it's internal)
So here's the problem. The "new list" mail originally gave us:
http://tenant.net/mailman/listinfo/hktest
Once we changed "Host name this list prefers" to hellskitchen.net and "Base URL for Mailman web interface" to http://hellskitchen.net/mailman/
we then got the following:
The Welcome message came from hktest-admin@hellskitchen.net http://hellskitchen.net/mailman/listinfo/hktest http://hellskitchen.net/mailman/options/hktest/user@domain.com HKtest-request@hellskitchen.net hktest@hellskitchen.net (for posting)
All the mail addresses seem to work OK, but the web pages do not exist on the hellskitchen.net server -- where I would like to have users access the various pages.
Trying a kludge, I created http://hellskitchen.net/mailman/listinfo/hktest/index.html which is a small file pulling in the correct file in a larger frame.
<html><head>
<title>HKtest Info Page</title></head>
<frameset rows="10,*" border="0">
<frame src="header.html" name="header" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no"> <frame src="http://tenant.net/mailman/listinfo/hktest" name="content" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="yes"> </frameset> </html>
It's not elegant, but it works OK for listinfo and for admin. I suppose it would also work for pipermail.
But I can't figure out how to make it work for user config pages. http://hellskitchen.net/mailman/options/hktest/user@domain.com Any thoughts on this dillema? Is there a more simple and elegant solution than a frame pull-in?
Your feedback is appreciated.
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