Hey Bernd, (and all others) thanks a lot for your answer. Helped me a lot!
So, the hardest part was actually the rewriting of sendmail, which does not work quite well yet. Maybe I should switch to exim or so. But anyway. Another question: Does anybody know good companies that provide hosting w/ or specifically for mailman lists? greetings, benni. -SDG- Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: > On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 11:59 -0600, Benjamin Mack wrote: > >>Hey everybody, >> >>I got a difficult (for me) situation here: >> >>I have a webserver with my domain and an outsourced mail server with a >>company that set up my mail addresses (where I can create pop-accounts >>through a web interface). >> >>Lately I wanted to set up a mailman installation on my webserver, with a >>mailing list like "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". But mailman requires an MTA on >>the system, but since the MTA for my domain is on another (for me not >>configurable) mail server, I would just like to have something like this >>on my webserver, since I do not want an extra mailserver there: >> >>* a program checks periodically for new messages on the pop-account and >>then forwards it to the mailman > > > fetchmail is doing this. Just start it every 5 minutes with cron. > fetchmail pops the mails from the pop3 server and feeds it to the local > MTA which must handle mails for the domain correctly, of course. > > I don't know if there is a simpler solution for fetchmail+mailman. > > >>* mailman evaluates and adds it to the list. >>* outgoing mails from mailman are going through the already installed >>default config sendmail > > > You probably have to check and possibly let sendmail rewrite header > fields correctly so that the From: etc. are correct. > AFAIK see now it should work if the mailman machine actually feels > responsible for the kirix.com domain as a whole (and perhaps for others > too) - it just doesn't receive mails from the eth<x> interface. > For local users you could forward local email to the pop-server via > normal aliases. > > Alternatively you could simply relay all outgoing mails of kirix.com > through the external mailserver and the external mailserver rewrites > header and envelope addresses. > > >>Has anybody experienced with that? Or is this something like a "don't do >>that"-thing since I did not find manuals for that kind of situation? > > > The problem is not really a mailman problem (or closely related) but > more a "several MTAs problem". > > Bernd ------------------------------------------------------ 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
