You might try defining the virtual server portions of mm_cfg.py (see ~mailman/Mailman/Defaults.py for the proper syntax...)
OTOH, both postfix and qmail have the ability to modify the "From" of a locally sent email. So does Sendmail if you set up the Generics tables... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Harwood, AS (Andrew) " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Jon Carnes'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 2:44 AM Subject: RE: [Mailman-Users] How to change 'from' address for admin messages > I'm using Mailman 2.1 and the sendmail that comes with Tru64 Unix (it seems > to have the > version number 8.8.8). > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Jon Carnes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: 06 February 2003 01:24 > > To: Harwood, AS (Andrew) > > Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > > Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] How to change 'from' address for admin > > messages > > > > > > What version of Mailman are you using and what is your MTA. Version > > 2.1.x has much better virtual host control. > > > > Also, Postfix has much better virtual host control than sendmail. > > > > On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 10:47, Harwood, AS (Andrew) wrote: > > > I am having difficulty working out how I can change the > > 'from' address that > > > mailman admin messages come from. I have set up mailman on > > our machine > > > tornado.badc.rl.ac.uk. I would prefer that mail appears to come from > > > 'ncas.nerc.ac.uk', which is a valid alias for this machine. > > How do I do > > > this? I have tried setting 'Host name this list prefers for > > email', but this > > > does not appear to make any difference. What determines > > which host the > > > messages appear to come from? Thanks. > > > > > > > > > Andrew Harwood > > > Infrastructure Manager > > > BADC, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > > > Mailman-Users mailing list > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > > > Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py > > > Searchable Archives: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ > > > > > > This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Unsubscribe or change your options at > > > > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/jonc%40nc.rr.com > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Mailman-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py > Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ > > This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe or change your options at > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/jonc%40nc.rr.com ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ This message was sent to: archive@jab.org Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org