[Mailman-Users] Redirect all -bounce emails

[Mark Sapiro]

Tom Kavanaugh wrote:
>
>I setup a few mail lists (including default mailman list) in 
>name.comdomain, and worked with my IT folks to redirect <maillist>@
>name.com to my mail server <mailist>@mine.name.com
>I do get a few <maillist-name>-bounce at name.com emails, and I would like to
>re-direct all these emails to mailman at name.com (or mailman at mine.name.com)
>Does someone have ideas how to accomplish this?
>
>I do not administer the company's mail servers.
>Folks here are not open to the list.name.com domain idea, for legacy
>reasons.


Depending on the MTA that recieves the incoming mail for the name.com
domain and whether it has the ability through NTFS or whatever to
access files or directories on mine.name.com, it may or may not be
possible to do something to direct all list mail to mine.name.com by
looking at aliases or whatever on mine.name.com, but that may be even
less acceptable to the IT folks than just installing the necessary
aliases.

See the post at
<http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2006-January/048725.html>
and the surrounding posts in that thread for more on this.

Basically, there are 10 addresses per list - the listname address plus
the 9 listname-* (where * is admin, bounces, confirm, join, leave,
owner, request, subscribe or unsubscribe) addresses - which all must
be able to receive mail and route it to Mailman in a way that Mailman
can tell which of the 10 addresses it came from. In order for Mailman
to fully function as documented, 9 of these should work (-admin is
deprecated). You can get away without some of the others if you don't
tell people about them, and they don't expect them to work from other
Mailman experience.


>I have a bunch of /etc/aliases entries for each of my mail lists on
>mine.name.com server.
>Is there a way I can use these alaises to re-firect <maillist-bounce>@
>name.com to mailman at name.com


I'm not sure what you're getting at here. If you're thinking that you
can get around the issue by having all bounces from any list be
returned to the 'mailman' list posting address, you could do this in
the source code, but not by using aliases on mine.name.com. But, you
still have the issue of the other listname-* addresses.

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