[Mailman-Users] Fwd: Using gmail SMTP and mailman together

Mark Sapiro msapiro at value.net
Tue Apr 25 19:04:27 CEST 2006


Matthew Price wrote:
>
>The one mailing list feature that I absolutely need is the ability to
>make each message appear to be individually sent; I don't want every
>subscriber to see the addresses of every other subscriber.  I already
>checked that functionality in gmail and its group feature just pastes
>the associated addresses into the recipients' list.


If you are only trying to protect the privacy of the list and not the
fact that there is a list involved, check out
<http://groups.yahoo.com/>, <http://groups.google.com/> or
<http://lists.topica.com/>. For various reasons, I can't really
recommend Topica and I have no list management experience with the
others.

If you are trying to make each recipient's message look like a personal
message addressed to the recipient, then perhaps Mailman on your
laptop could be a solution, but there are potential stumbling blocks.

In your OP, you asked if Mailman can use Gmail's secure SMTP service
for outgoing mail. Mailman itself doesn't support SSL and I don't know
anything about adding this layer between Mailman and the outside.

There is a post at
<http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2005-October/047082.html>
that gives a patch for adding user/password smtp authentication to
Mailman's outgoing SMTP, but this is not the same thing.

Also, there are issues with using a remote outgoing SMTP server "on the
road". You will undoubtedly encounter in your travels, public access
points that redirect all port 25 (and perhaps secure smtp ports too)
connects to their own SMTP server, thus thwarting your attempts to
reach your preferred server.

Putting your own outgoing SMTP server on your laptop may help, but
there are issues like the above here too, as well as issues with the
recipient's server possibly not liking the way your server identifies
itself or the fact that its claimed identity doesn't match its current
IP.

-- 
Mark Sapiro <msapiro at value.net>       The highway is for gamblers,
San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan




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