Anil Jangity wrote: > >Mailman receives the mail and then posts to the same local MTA on the host >which sends it out to Smart host. >I am not sure we can't just have mailman send directly to the smarthost? > >What are the implications (on the web site as well as how Mailman functions) >if I change DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST to be SmartHostA?
Most likeley, SmartHostA will refuse to relay the mail because Mailman hasn't authenticated to it as an authorized user. See <https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/558281> for a patch that implements SMTP authentication for Mailman. -- 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 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
