[Mailman-Users] Different servers

[Benjamin Mack]

Hey Bernd, (and all others)

thanks a lot for your answer. Helped me a lot!

So, the hardest part was actually the rewriting of sendmail, which does
not work quite well yet. Maybe I should switch to exim or so.

But anyway. Another question: Does anybody know good companies that
provide hosting w/ or specifically for mailman lists?

greetings,
benni.
-SDG-

Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 11:59 -0600, Benjamin Mack wrote:
> 
>>Hey everybody,
>>
>>I got a difficult (for me) situation here:
>>
>>I have a webserver with my domain and an outsourced mail server with a 
>>company that set up my mail addresses (where I can create pop-accounts 
>>through a web interface).
>>
>>Lately I wanted to set up a mailman installation on my webserver, with a 
>>mailing list like "members at kirix.com". But mailman requires an MTA on 
>>the system, but since the MTA for my domain is on another (for me not 
>>configurable) mail server, I would just like to have something like this 
>>on my webserver, since I do not want an extra mailserver there:
>>
>>* a program checks periodically for new messages on the pop-account and 
>>then forwards it to the mailman
> 
> 
> fetchmail is doing this. Just start it every 5 minutes with cron.
> fetchmail pops the mails from the pop3 server and feeds it to the local
> MTA which must handle mails for the domain correctly, of course.
> 
> I don't know if there is a simpler solution for fetchmail+mailman.
> 
> 
>>* mailman evaluates and adds it to the list.
>>* outgoing mails from mailman are going through the already installed 
>>default config sendmail
> 
> 
> You probably have to check and possibly let sendmail rewrite header
> fields correctly so that the From: etc. are correct.
> AFAIK see now it should work if the mailman machine actually feels
> responsible for the kirix.com domain as a whole (and perhaps for others
> too) - it just doesn't receive mails from the eth<x> interface.
> For local users you could forward local email to the pop-server via
> normal aliases.
> 
> Alternatively you could simply relay all outgoing mails of kirix.com
> through the external mailserver and the external mailserver rewrites
> header and envelope addresses.
> 
> 
>>Has anybody experienced with that? Or is this something like a "don't do 
>>that"-thing since I did not find manuals for that kind of situation? 
> 
> 
> The problem is not really a mailman problem (or closely related) but
> more a "several MTAs problem".
> 
> 	Bernd