[Mailman-Users] Can't change host name preference

[Mark Sapiro]

Mike Flaherty wrote:
> 
>I am trying to set up Mailman on a new domain.  I have done it in the past without issue, but now I have a really bizzare problem.
> 
>When I go to the "MYLIST mailing list administration General Options Section" page, I notice the following entry preloaded in the "Host name this list prefers for email" field...
> 
>syd.xobas.net
> 
>I have NO IDEA where this is coming from.  It is not my domain, so I replace it with my own.


It comes from the add_virtualhost() entry for the domain. There should
be an

add_virtualhost('web_domain', 'email_domain')

line in mm_cfg.py. Then if you create the list from the web interface
with a URL whose host name is 'web_domain', the list will be created
with host_name = 'email_domain'.

Likewise if you create the list with bin/newlist -u 'web_domain'


>However, when I click the "Submit your changes" button, it goes to an invalid page.


You mean a 404? If so, the list's web_page_url is also messed up.


When I try again, I notice that when I hover over the button, the URL
that it translates to incorporates that "syd.xobas.net" domain into
the URL.


Huh? The button is a submit action for a form. Are you saying the POST
action URL has host "syd.xobas.net"? If so, my best guess is that that
is the value of DEFAULT_URL_HOST and DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST in your
installation.


>I looked all over my server (a vps running CentOS 5) for where that entry might be coming from.  I did find an occurance of it in 
> 
>/var/lib/mailman/archives/private/MYLIST/index.html
> 
>and
> 
>/var/lib/mailman/archives/private/mailman/index.html
> 
>But I don't know how it got there.  Where is the proper place to replace that domain with my own?


In mm_cfg.py

DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'your_web_domain'
DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'your_email_domain'
VIRTUAL_HOSTS.clear()
add_virtualhost(DEFAULT_URL_HOST, DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST)

plus add_virtualhost() lines for any additional domains.

Then run fix_url to fix the existing list, e.g.

  bin/withlist -l -a -r fix_url 

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