[Mailman-Users] problems with virtual hosting

[Jon Carnes]

Sendmail is the culprit.  Recompile it to use the generics table, then
setup the generics table.  The generics table allows sendmail to masque
as an MTA for alternate domains.
  http://www.sendmail.org/virtual-hosting.html

Jon Carnes

On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 02:15, Patrick O'Brien wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm setting up mailman on a machine that handles mail for a different domain 
> than it's actual name is.  I realize this is pretty standard, and it works for 
> the most part.
> 
> However, when I subscribe/undsubscribe people from my test list, the mail to 
> the person being [un]subscribed comes from "test-request@<actual domain>" 
> rather than "test-request@<virtual domain>"  ie, when the mail is sent, 
> mailman is just specifying:
> 	From: test-request
> instead of
> 	From: test-request at virtual.domain.com
> 
> ... and sendmail is happily appending @realname.com to test-request.
> 
> I've got everything in all the config files pointing at the virtual domain, so 
> I'm not sure what else I can do.  Is this a bug, or is there a config option 
> somewhere to make mailman explicitly specify the domain when sending 
> administrative email?  It seems to me that mailman is expecting sendmail to 
> append the correct domain, and it's not happening.
> 
> Note that all of the email addresses within the administrative emails read 
> correctly, ie:
> 	To post to this list, send your email to:
> 		test@<virtualdomain>
> 
> And if it turns out I need to hack mailman to do what I want, can somebody 
> tell me where this behavior is defined?
> 
> Thanks,
> -Pat
> 
> ----------------------------
> Patrick O'Brien
> Unix Systems Administrator
> Computer Science Department
> University of Maryland
> College Park, MD
> ----------------------------
> 
> -Pat
> 
> 
> 
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