[Mailman-Users] Multiple domain matters

[J. Frederick Ball OEF]

Well, I posted about three different questions to the list about how to get the multiple domain thing happening on my system, which elicited varied and interesting comments -- mostly suggestions to either run multiple copies of Mailman or to give in and use a single domain for all lists.  While the first suggestion is a possible workaround and the second essentially says "forget it," neither truly answers the question.  However, my search of the archives demonstrated to my satisfaction that it is a real question and concern for many people.

Therefore, I'll offer the very simple solution that worked for me -- which is probably terribly obvious to you who are experienced but wasn't so obvious to the rest of us -- on the chance that someone else may benefit from my spelling out the obvious.  After all, that's how lists like this are eminently helpful -- by providing the simple solutions to things that others just don't happen to know.

First, I'm running FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE, sendmail, and Mailman 2.0.5.  After getting a list up and working successfully at my default domain, which required manually tweaking the aliases file to set up the list addresses, I went into the admin web interface and changed the next-to-last option under "General otpions" -- "Host name this list prefers."  I set that to:

        preferreddomain.com

Upon submitting the changes, the list info page read:

        To post a message to all the list members, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Then I added this line to my aliases file:

        [EMAIL PROTECTED]        [EMAIL PROTECTED]   

That's all it took.  It now seems so simple, but as a relatively new person in terms of dealing with e-mail administration, I didn't see it before.  Don't know that this helps anyone, but it helps me to say it and to review it.

Fred