[Mailman-Users] Status of virtual mailing list management

[Barry Warsaw]

On Feb 16, 2010, at 8:40 PM, martin f krafft wrote:

> I only just returned to mailman after a long time away and found 3.0
> in active development. Yay!

Come join us over in mailman-developers! :)

> Looking at the docs at
> http://packages.python.org/mailman/docs/README.html, I cannot find
> any mention of virtual hosting. Will mailman 3 be able to host
> foo at bar.com as well as foo at baz.org as two separate lists?

Yes.  The key change is that lists are identified by their posting address (a.k.a. List-Post, a.k.a. fully-qualified list name), e.g. foo at bar.com and foo at baz.org.  There's no place now where the list is identified internally as just 'foo'.

'bin/mailman create' is the command in MM3 to create new mailing lists.  You have to configure Mailman to know about the domain before you can create a mailing list in that domain, but you can take a shortcut by adding the -d option to that command.

-Barry