[Mailman-Users] Mailman and Groupwise

Carl Zwanzig cpz at tuunq.com
Tue Feb 12 18:08:11 CET 2008


In a flurry of recycled electrons, Brad Knowles wrote:

> GroupWise is a PC-based LAN e-mail package, so you're unlikely to get 
> postfix also running on that same box, unless you're using virtual 
> machine technology to run multiple different server OSes on the same 
> physical box.  It's not a traditional MTA, it's more of a gateway to 
> a proprietary LAN e-mail package, and isn't going to handle well the 
> inbound aliases issue for Mailman -- much like using Exchange as your 
> MTA.

Groupwise grew out of WordPerfect Office, which was a shared-file
type of system, but as I understand, Groupwise has been a real client/
server setup for years now. (Novell claims it'll run on windows, netware,
and unix/linux).  Since it does have an "Internet mail" connector, or
whatevern Novell calls it, it should be able to interface with Mailman
somehow.

Either way, I don't think that mail transport probably is as much of
a problem as  address book integration is.   (I like the idea of putting
the mailman addresses in their own subdomain.)

All this is, of course, conjecture on my part.

z!


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