A POP/POP3 server is not required for mailman. Only if your mail server also provides mail services to users (e.g., they can have an email address [EMAIL PROTECTED]) do you need POP3. The same goes for IMAP, if that comes up.
POP and IMAP are protocols for _retrieving_ mail (as opposed to _receiving_ or _sending_, which are both handled by your Mail Transport Agent, which in this case is Sendmail. Mailman does not need to retrieve mail.) - Patrick Bogen On 2/19/06, lovecreatesbeauty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, thank you, Patrick. > > But I did not see that description in the INSTALL document. Perhaps it > says but I ignored them, it is my fault. > > One more question, I did not add one `POP(3)' component into the > Mailman system (i.e. my mail mail sysem including Mailman, sendmail, > apache), but some guys questioned on the absence of the `POP' similar > things. > > I think there is no need to install one POP thing for it. 1. the > Mainman document does not says it; 2. Perhaps all mailing list > subscribers subscribe with external mail which does not reside in the > Mail server of my mail system (mentioned in the context). > > On 2/20/06, Patrick Bogen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 2/19/06, lovecreatesbeauty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > By the way, when I create a new list (not site-wide one), Mailman will > > > create an email address for it, but Mailman doesn't create a real > > > email address for the list. Do I need to create that corresponding > > > email address manually? > > > > > > > With sendmail, mailman will report a list of aliases (or you should > > run genaliases manually), which you then need to add to /etc/aliases, > > and run newaliases to tell sendmail to rescan this file. > > > > -- > > - Patrick Bogen > > > > > -- > Sincerely, > > lovecreatesbeauty, > > lovecreatesbeauty at gmail dot com, > > http://www.spaces.msn.com/members/lovecreatesbeauty/ > -- - Patrick Bogen ------------------------------------------------------ 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
