[Mailman-Users] clarification on virtual domains

[Mark Sapiro]

bijayant kumar wrote:
>
>--- Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net> wrote:
>
>> Are you sure it isn't the other way around? When you
>> have
>> 
>> add_virtualhost('lists.bijayant.com', 'dom1.com')
>> add_virtualhost('lists.bijayant.com', 'dom2.com')
>> 
>> The second entry effectively replaces the first
>> because what they do is
>> add entries to a Python dictionary (a hash table).
>> The first argument
>> is the key and the second is the value. So the first
>> above makes an
>> entry with key 'lists.bijayant.com' and value
>> 'dom1.com' and the
>> second replaces the value for key
>> 'lists.bijayant.com' with 'dom2.com'
>
>I am not sure about this functionality of python, but
>what you are saying seems to right. After this
>explanation, it is little bit clear to me now why the
>second domain is taking the previous value. But i dont
>have any other option because i have to use only one
>url i.e 'lists.bijayant.com'. So all the lists created
>have to take the same url 'lists.bijayant.com'.


In that case, every list you create from the web will have the same
value for host_name and the data/virtual-mailman entries will have
that domain. If it is wrong, you will need to change it via the web
and then run bin/genaliases to rebuild data/virtual-mailman.

Otherwise, you can create lists with bin/newlist and specify the
host_name with the -e/--emailhost option.

But, if all lists have the same web domain why do you want them to have
different email domains? The listnames have to be unique anyway, so
why not just have them all in your primary email domain and not bother
with additional domains?

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