Thanks to you and Patrick both for your time on this request. The need to be able to connect to a remote, tls speaking MTA has been eliminated by a little program called ssmtp that I found in the debian repository. All it does is impersonate the sendmail binary on the client end while piping the message to 'real' smtp server over tcp/ip. It supports tla and authentication so that is a relief. The only unknow is speed, since ssmtp doesn't do any spooling it could be quite a wait if one has to wait for 200 individual SMTP transactions to process.
I keep poking at mailman since the problem got a whole lot easier after I found this program. Thanks again for your time. On 4/25/06, Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matthew Price wrote: > > > >The one mailing list feature that I absolutely need is the ability to > >make each message appear to be individually sent; I don't want every > >subscriber to see the addresses of every other subscriber. I already > >checked that functionality in gmail and its group feature just pastes > >the associated addresses into the recipients' list. > > > If you are only trying to protect the privacy of the list and not the > fact that there is a list involved, check out > <http://groups.yahoo.com/>, <http://groups.google.com/> or > <http://lists.topica.com/>. For various reasons, I can't really > recommend Topica and I have no list management experience with the > others. > > If you are trying to make each recipient's message look like a personal > message addressed to the recipient, then perhaps Mailman on your > laptop could be a solution, but there are potential stumbling blocks. > > In your OP, you asked if Mailman can use Gmail's secure SMTP service > for outgoing mail. Mailman itself doesn't support SSL and I don't know > anything about adding this layer between Mailman and the outside. > > There is a post at > <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2005-October/047082.html> > that gives a patch for adding user/password smtp authentication to > Mailman's outgoing SMTP, but this is not the same thing. > > Also, there are issues with using a remote outgoing SMTP server "on the > road". You will undoubtedly encounter in your travels, public access > points that redirect all port 25 (and perhaps secure smtp ports too) > connects to their own SMTP server, thus thwarting your attempts to > reach your preferred server. > > Putting your own outgoing SMTP server on your laptop may help, but > there are issues like the above here too, as well as issues with the > recipient's server possibly not liking the way your server identifies > itself or the fact that its claimed identity doesn't match its current > IP. > > -- > Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, > San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan > > -- Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! ------------------------------------------------------ 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
