Re: [Mailman-Users] Setting a bind address for SMTP delivery

2009-02-26 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 02/26/2009 09:52:52 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote: However, I too am puzzled as to why there are unqualified non-local addresses to deal with at all. Because the whole point of this particular application of mailman is to receive and distribute mail from a system over which I have no control that

Re: [Mailman-Users] Setting a bind address for SMTP delivery

2009-02-26 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 02/26/2009 09:41:40 AM, Brad Knowles wrote: Mark Sapiro wrote: SMTPHOST and SMTPPORT in mm_cfg.py. That controls where you send to, but not what address Mailman binds to when it sends to that host/port. As it turns out I set SMTPHOST to 127.0.0.2, and instead of the usual smtp line in

Re: [Mailman-Users] Setting a bind address for SMTP delivery

2009-02-26 Thread Mark Sapiro
Brad Knowles wrote: >Mark Sapiro wrote: > >> SMTPHOST and SMTPPORT in mm_cfg.py. > >That controls where you send to, but not what address Mailman binds to when >it sends to that host/port. Right. I misread the OP. It said "I think the simplest would be if I could control the address from which

Re: [Mailman-Users] Setting a bind address for SMTP delivery

2009-02-26 Thread Brad Knowles
Mark Sapiro wrote: SMTPHOST and SMTPPORT in mm_cfg.py. That controls where you send to, but not what address Mailman binds to when it sends to that host/port. -- Brad Knowles If you like Jazz/R&B guitar, check out LinkedIn Profile: my friend bigsbytracks on YouTube a

Re: [Mailman-Users] Setting a bind address for SMTP delivery

2009-02-26 Thread Mark Sapiro
Karl O. Pinc wrote: > >There's various ways around the problem, >ways to keep postfix from re-writing the addresses. >I think the simplest would be if I could >control the address from which mailman sends >it's mail, say if mailman binds to 127.0.0.2 >instead of 127.0.0.1 when it sends it's mail. >

Re: [Mailman-Users] Setting a bind address for SMTP delivery

2009-02-26 Thread Brad Knowles
on 2/26/09 1:25 AM, Karl O. Pinc said: Tacking my domain name on somebody else's email address puts it in the wrong place. Better to leave it alone. If it's from some other domain, then it should already be fully qualified before you get it -- that's required by the RFCs. You should reject

Re: [Mailman-Users] Setting a bind address for SMTP delivery

2009-02-25 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 02/26/2009 12:29:33 AM, Brad Knowles wrote: on 2/25/09 11:53 PM, Karl O. Pinc said: Or do you think that an MTA should re-write all addresses and fully qualify them with the local domain, regardless of whether the mail was received from the Internet for delivery to a local user? I don't mea

Re: [Mailman-Users] Setting a bind address for SMTP delivery

2009-02-25 Thread Brad Knowles
on 2/25/09 11:53 PM, Karl O. Pinc said: Or do you think that an MTA should re-write all addresses and fully qualify them with the local domain, regardless of whether the mail was received from the Internet for delivery to a local user? I don't mean to put words in your mouth but that seems to be

Re: [Mailman-Users] Setting a bind address for SMTP delivery

2009-02-25 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 02/25/2009 11:07:46 PM, Brad Knowles wrote: on 2/25/09 10:28 PM, Karl O. Pinc said: This causes a problem with mailman, because mailman is sending mail from the local box any addresses that come in without @domain on the end (for whatever reason) gets rewritten when mailman re-sends the mai

Re: [Mailman-Users] Setting a bind address for SMTP delivery

2009-02-25 Thread Brad Knowles
on 2/25/09 10:28 PM, Karl O. Pinc said: This causes a problem with mailman, because mailman is sending mail from the local box any addresses that come in without @domain on the end (for whatever reason) gets rewritten when mailman re-sends the mail to the list. This is a problem to fix in your

[Mailman-Users] Setting a bind address for SMTP delivery

2009-02-25 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Hi, I'm wondering if there's a way to set the address that mailman binds to when sending SMTP. Here's the background: I'm using postfix as a MTA. When postfix receives mail containing addresses that have no @domain part, and the mail is sent from the local box, it automatically adds @whateverth