[Mailman-Users] multipe domains

[Steven Bonisteel]

At 03:52 PM 3/19/2003 +0100, ne at slums.de wrote:

>Anyway I want to have someting like:
>all at test.de and another list
>all at notest.de !!!!
>Maybe anyone can give me a hint where to search !


There are many posts in the archives 
<http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users@python.org/> providing 
examples of VIRTUAL_HOSTS in "mm_cfg.py" for manually specifying 
virtual mail and Web hosts (if different).

One example that works for us:

##########
VIRTUAL_HOSTS = {'lists.test.de':'test.de',
                  'lists.notest.de':'notest.de'}
VIRTUAL_HOST_OVERVIEW = 1
##########

If you mirror that Web host info (the second argument on each line) 
in your HTTPD config, then going to:

   http://test.de/mailman/create

or

   http://notest.de/mailman/create

... could begin new lists on separate virtual domains (assuming you 
set up Web-server CGI alias that way.)

Finally, you will have to configure your SMTP server to process mail 
for those virtual domains.

In our case - using Sendmail - we use the usual "aliases" file 
approach to send mailman posts to the Mailman handler for each *list 
name*:

# test list aliases
test:              "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post test"
test-admin:        "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman admin test"
test-bounces:      "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman bounces test"
test-confirm:      "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman confirm test"
test-join:         "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman join test"
test-leave:        "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman leave test"
test-owner:        "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman owner test"
test-request:      "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman request test"
test-subscribe:    "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman subscribe test"
test-unsubscribe:  "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman unsubscribe test"

... and we happen to use a "local-host-names" file to have Sendmail 
see itself as the various "Virual_Host" domains.

There are other configurations.

HOWEVER .. Mailman's Virtual_Hosts doesn't allow you to have lists 
such as

  all at test.de AND  all at notest.de  right out of the box.

The list names must be unique. You'd need some approach external to 
mailman to remap list names if you want to do that, I'd guess.

Regards,
SRB


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