[Mailman-Users] How to change the mailman admin email domain

[Milos Cuculovic]

Hi Richard,

I now understand how to do it. Sounds as a good workaround. Thank you all very much for your help.

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> On 31 Aug 2017, at 12:47, Richard Damon <Richard at Damon-Family.org> wrote:
> 
> On 8/31/17 3:41 AM, Milos Cuculovic wrote:
>> Hi ark,
>> 
>> Thank you for your prompt reply.
>> 
>>> You'd be much better off installing 2.1.24 from source.
>> => Will do, thx.
>> 
>>> "works well” ?
>> => Yes, sorry, my email client changed it automatically.
>> 
>>> Configure that list to accept non-member posts and subscribe the
>>> addresses that you want to receive that mail.
>> => I do not think this is an option / solution to my problem. The text I mentioned “If you are having trouble using the lists, please contact mailman at lists.xxx.com.” is displayed on the MailMan homepage, so people may click on the email address and send an email. As this email address is inexistent, it will not work. Please correct me if I’m wrong.
> 
> Installing Mailman on lists.example.com <http://lists.example.com/> will automatically create a special list, mailman, whose address will be mailman at lists.example.org <mailto:mailman at lists.example.org>, so the address should exist, that list may not be configured the way you want, which is why you were given instructions on how to configure it to work the way you want.
> 
>> 
>> 
>> Milos
>> 
>>> On 31 Aug 2017, at 05:32, Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 08/30/2017 05:11 AM, Milos Cuculovic wrote:
>>>> I installed Mailman 2.1.16 today on Ubuntu 14.04.
>>> You'd be much better off installing 2.1.24 from source. See
>>> <https://launchpad.net/mailman/2.1/2.1.24/+download/> for the source and
>>> <https://wiki.list.org/x/17891606> for installatipon help.
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> We are using the email domain lists.xxx.com which worshippers well for mailing lists, however the main domain I am using for normal email is xxx.com.
>>> "works well" ?
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> The problem arises when trying to contact Mailman admin following this instruction:
>>>> 
>>>> “If you are having trouble using the lists, please contact mailman at lists.xxx.com.”
>>>> 
>>>> Is there a possibility to setup the xxx.com domain for this sentence, or if not, make an alias so that mailman at lists.xxx.com is forwarded to mailman at xxx.com
>>> 
>>> mailman at lists.xxx.com is the posting address for the "mailman" site
>>> list. Configure that list to accept non-member posts and subscribe the
>>> addresses that you want to receive that mail.
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net>        The highway is for gamblers,
>>> San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan
> 
> -- 
> Richard Damon
> 
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