[Mailman-Developers] RE: [Mailman-Users] COMPLETELY Virtual mailing lists....

Scott Brown scott-brown@home.com
Tue, 20 Feb 2001 19:33:05 -0500


> Depends on how 'virtual' your setup is, and I suspect, it
> also depends on the MTA.

A single instance of sendmail (8.5.5) deals with all my virtual domains...
and hands off to the lists as defined by /etc/aliases (after the incoming
mail has been mashed into the resulting list name)

> I have three domains sitting on one machine and mailman
> installed for each one (meaning, three copies of mailman).

For a small number of hosts, I could deal with that... but I intend to
increase my number of virts.

> Each vhost has it's own web address, and crontask.  And I
> can have the same list name under all three vhosts and it
> works.

Eeek... I wasnt hoping to go that far... I was thinking more like one
central mailman process (like exists now) with the unique data stores
segmented by virtual host.

> I run sendmail as my MTA, and using its virtusertable
> feature, combined with aliases, each list knows where
> to go, what to do and what domain to use.

What I've got right now is a pseudo virtusertable setup (it's a leased
server - setup like the servers that the company I'm leasing from sets up
their own...) that hands off to /etc/aliases

so inbound mail to listname@virtualhost1.com

	--> listname (in /etc/aliases)

		--> | ../post listname

But of course, since listname in /etc/aliases is unique to the box, I'm
unable to assign that to another domain that may want that name as well.

Thats why I originally was prefixing the list name with the domain... but
thats ugly when you get

	thislongdomainname.com_help@thislongdomainname.com


OR am I just missing the boat somewhere??