Re: [Mailman-Users] Virtual sites

2006-09-14 Thread Brad Knowles
At 9:42 AM +0100 2006-09-14, David Lee wrote: > So I certainly wouldn't classify "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > (same name > "list") as 'quirky'. Rather as 'routine' for an ISP-like organisation > offering multiple, logically independent domains. Mailman was never designed to b

Re: [Mailman-Users] Virtual sites

2006-09-14 Thread David Lee
On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > Carl Zwanzig wrote: > > Probably the easiest way to get the 'multiple' domains that you want > > is to run one instance of mailman for each domain. Yoy can then configure > > the smtphost for that specific domain. > And to second this part of Ca

Re: [Mailman-Users] Virtual sites

2006-09-14 Thread Brad Knowles
At 2:13 AM -0400 2006-09-14, Jim Popovitch wrote: > OK, fair enough. Back to Mailman, why is checking MX records (or at > least allowing specification of 2 or more SMTPHOSTS) a bad idea? It > just seems to make good sense to me, considering failover, load > balancing, resiliency, etc. There

Re: [Mailman-Users] Virtual sites

2006-09-13 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 00:34 -0500, Brad Knowles wrote: > At 12:51 AM -0400 2006-09-14, Jim Popovitch wrote: > > > Looking up MX records is also the job of an MUA, and Mailman is very > > much like an MUA, albeit on steroids. IMHO of course. > > I don't know of an MUA on the planet that looks u

Re: [Mailman-Users] Virtual sites

2006-09-13 Thread Brad Knowles
At 12:51 AM -0400 2006-09-14, Jim Popovitch wrote: > Looking up MX records is also the job of an MUA, and Mailman is very > much like an MUA, albeit on steroids. IMHO of course. I don't know of an MUA on the planet that looks up MX records. Check your RFCs. Checking MX records is most defini

Re: [Mailman-Users] Virtual sites

2006-09-13 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 23:23 -0500, Brad Knowles wrote: > At 1:53 PM -0400 2006-09-13, Jim Popovitch wrote: > > > The problem with this approach is that Mailman will still only use the > > single specified mail server, rather than processing a list of > > mailservers defined as MX records for a

Re: [Mailman-Users] Virtual sites

2006-09-13 Thread Brad Knowles
At 2:57 PM -0400 2006-09-13, Jay Vaagen wrote: > If I understand all this correctly, there's no current feature that will > allow mailman to send mail from the correct virtual domain's hostname, and > not localhost.. correct? Mailman is a Mailing List Management system, not an MTA. The kind o

Re: [Mailman-Users] Virtual sites

2006-09-13 Thread Brad Knowles
At 1:53 PM -0400 2006-09-13, Jim Popovitch wrote: > The problem with this approach is that Mailman will still only use the > single specified mail server, rather than processing a list of > mailservers defined as MX records for a DNS domain. Mailman is a Mailing List Management system. It is

Re: [Mailman-Users] Virtual sites

2006-09-13 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Carl Zwanzig wrote: > Probably the easiest way to get the 'multiple' domains that you want > is to run one instance of mailman for each domain. Yoy can then configure > the smtphost for that specific domain. And to second this part of Carl's e-mail, this is exactly what I'm doing on my end. I

Re: [Mailman-Users] Virtual sites

2006-09-13 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Jay Vaagen wrote: > If I understand all this correctly, there's no current feature that will > allow mailman to send mail from the correct virtual domain's hostname, and > not localhost.. correct? As I understand the current implimentation of virtual domains, mu

Re: [Mailman-Users] Virtual sites

2006-09-13 Thread Patrick Bogen
On 9/13/06, Jay Vaagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, so after reading all this it becomes clear to me that this is not going > to be an easy fix.. > > If I understand all this correctly, there's no current feature that will > allow mailman to send mail from the correct virtual domain's hostname,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Virtual sites

2006-09-13 Thread Jay Vaagen
om: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Popovitch Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 1:54 PM Cc: Mailman-Users@python.org Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Virtual sites Patrick Bogen wrote: > On 9/13/06, Jay Vaagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> How can I set

Re: [Mailman-Users] Virtual sites

2006-09-13 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Jim Popovitch wrote: > The problem with this approach is that Mailman will still only use the > single specified mail server, rather than processing a list of > mailservers defined as MX records for a DNS domain. If I have a domain name for which there are 3 MXs setup in a Round Robin configur

Re: [Mailman-Users] Virtual sites

2006-09-13 Thread Jim Popovitch
Patrick Bogen wrote: > On 9/13/06, Jay Vaagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> How can I set mailman to use the MX record instead of localhost (or one >> static address) for sending mail? > I've added FAQ 4.72 > > as a simple answe

Re: [Mailman-Users] Virtual sites

2006-09-13 Thread Brad Knowles
At 11:54 AM -0400 2006-09-13, Jay Vaagen wrote: > How can I set mailman to use the MX record instead of localhost (or one > static address) for sending mail? You don't. Mailman is not an MTA, so it knows nothing of MX records. Maybe you can tell us more about where you want to get, and then

Re: [Mailman-Users] Virtual sites

2006-09-13 Thread Patrick Bogen
On 9/13/06, Jay Vaagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can I set mailman to use the MX record instead of localhost (or one > static address) for sending mail? I've added FAQ 4.72 as a simple answer for this. P.S., to the list

[Mailman-Users] Virtual sites

2006-09-13 Thread Jay Vaagen
How can I set mailman to use the MX record instead of localhost (or one static address) for sending mail? Thanks! Jay Vaagen Certified Technician Abadata Computer Corporation, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 989 883 3411 Fax: 989 883 9313 --