> Please forgive my very basic noob question. I just want to be sure I > understand this correctly. > > I have an email address with an email provider on a completely separate > host and system. > > I want to use Mailman with this address. Does Mailman, in essence, act > as a email client, receiving an email just like any other client > (Thunderbird, Mutt, etc.) would, act appropriately on it and send out > the response to a generated list? > > Therefore, I could have Mailman run on a separate web host or whatever, > and it would use the email address just fine? > > With my email service, I can create email boxes and that is about it. > I can't do anything else on the server side. > > With my webhosting service, I can do pretty much anything web accessed, > but I cannot run an email server. > > Thanks for your patience with the new guy. > > Michael > ------------------------------------------------------
Hi Michael: Mailman requires a unique host name and the list address, which is an e-mail address that is used by Mailman, uses this unique host name. So you cannot use domainexample.com for e-mail on one server and mailman on another server. However you can use a sub-domain with mailman such as list.domainexample.com and have your hosting provider or domain registrant create an A record for the sub-domain and point it to the mailman server. We do this all the time for our own mailman clients. You might want to check our mailman services out at http://emwd.com/mailman.html if you are interested in this type of setup. Regards, Brian -------------------------------------- EMWD.com - 'Powered by Techies' Blog.emwd.com - "Curious comments from a web hosting techie" ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org 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
