[Mailman-Users] virtual host

Brad Knowles brad at stop.mail-abuse.org
Tue Sep 21 16:13:14 CEST 2004


At 9:54 AM -0400 2004-09-21, Hong Jiang Tian wrote:

>  I have questions about using the virtual host with Mailman 2.1.5 on RHEL 3.
>  For example the hostname of my mailing server is land.its.org. I created an
>  DNS alias that is named mailman.its.org.

	As a CNAME alias?  Don't do that.  The RFCs say that you should 
not send e-mail to a CNAME alias, and if you do, then the headers 
should be changed to reflect the real canonical name of the machine.

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