Elvis Fernandes wrote: > >In my case, the company mail server is being maintained by the IT team, and >the mailman server is being maintained by me. > >So from what you tell me, the /etc/aliases need to be updated in the company >mail server, right? Currently, the /etc/aliases are updated only in the >mailman server. > >When I email to unix_sysadmin-bounces, it comes back with permanent fatal >errors. >My theory for this error is: when I email unix_sysadmin-bounces, it goes to >the company email server. Since this email server does not have >unix_sysadmin-bounces email account, it just returns the email to the >sender. The company email server does not have a way to check with the >mailman server. Right?
That complicates things considerably. What you need is for mail from the outside world to any of the 10 addresses per list to be delivered to your server. How this can be accomplished on the company mail server depends on what MTA runs there. It could probably be done with 10 email accounts per list, each with it's own .forward or other mechanism to redirect the mail to the Mailman server. It could probably also be done with aliases on the company server, or possibly programmatically. If the company mail server, via NTFS or whatever, could see the list of directories in Mailman's lists/ directory, it would be able to progammatically determine whether any particular address is a valid Mailman address and act accordingly (assuming it is progammable to that degree), but the IT people probably wouldn't like that since you could create a list with the same name as a company email user and 'intercept' that mail. It seems the 'best' solution is to use a separate email domain for Mailman, e.g. lists.company.com or mailman.company.com and publish an MX DNS record to get that domain delivered to the Mailman server. -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org 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
