Thanks for the quick reply. I was afraid that it was possible but would be very complex/time consuming. I guess I will look into either migrating hosting of our email in-house, or as John Dennis pointed out, finding a hosting company that provides list services.
Thanks again, Darich On Oct 27, 2005, at 11:01 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > Darich Runyan/OMNI INFOSEC HQ wrote: > >> >> New to the list and mailman so please go easy. ;^) I did check the >> archives as well as did some extensive searching online and was >> unable to find an answer to my question. My company's email is >> hosted by an email provider. This has not been a bad arrangement; >> however, now we would like to provide some email lists. Is it >> possible to host mailman and lists without hosting our own mail? If >> it is possible would any of you please point me to some documentation >> or possibly point me in the right direction? >> > > > Yes, but it's not too easy. Using an external outgoing mail server is > easily configured in Mailman and may work, but there may problems with > the server not wanting to 'relay' your outgoing mail, at least without > authorization. If this is the case, there is a simple patch for > username/password authorization. > > Using an external server for incoming list mail is more complicated > and > usually requires something like fetchmail to get the mail from the > server and something like procmail or maybe Mailman's 'maildir' > feature to get the mail to Mailman. > > See > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2005-October/ > 047082.html > for a little more detail and the above mentioned patch. > > Also search this list's archives for things like 'external mail > server' > and 'fetchmail'. > > >> Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users% >> 40python.org/ >> > > > -- > Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, > San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan > > --- Darich Runyan President/Principal Consultant Omni Infosec Ltd. 734 Thimble Shoals Blvd. Newport News, VA 23606 757-876-3805 ------------------------------------------------------ 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/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
