>First off I want to say thanks for all your help. Mark has the right idea, >we have the mailman installation up and running and accessible from the web >server. We also have email going from mailman through the email server >succesfully. The problem arises when email (posts, etc) comes back, which >we want to go through the email server to reduce load on the web server, but >needs to go to mailman's lists, which are only known to the web server since >that's where the mailman installation exists. Would the fetchmail or using a >relay help us in this case, because what is happening is that mail is coming >into the mail server and bouncing back because postfix is trying to send the >email to the mailman processing program, which does not exist on the email >server? We could setup an MTA on the web server, but we were hoping to >avoid that in order to have a complete separation of the two servers. The >web server only has a simple sendmail install for sending outgoing mail for >things like cron jobs.
There are various ways to do this. If I were doing it, I would configure the sendmail on the mailman box to listen on some port other than 25, say xxxx. Then you need to put the Mailman aliases in /etc/aliases on the Mailman box. Let's call this mm.example.com. On the main mail server that receives mail for say [email protected], I think all you need to do is put entries like [email protected] smtp:[mm.example.com]:xxxx [email protected] smtp:[mm.example.com]:xxxx etc. for each list in postfix's transport table (/etc/postfix/transport) and run postmap to update it, but I've never actually done this, so I'm not certain. You may also need a transport_maps = in main.cf pointing to the table. -- Mark Sapiro <[email protected]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 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://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
