Neil Carson wrote: > >My home ISP (Rogers.com) does not allow customers to run a 'mailserver' and >prevents us from doing so by blocking (I believe) certain outgoing/incoming >ports etc. > >Is there some way I can get around this restriction and actually send msgs >to/from my test-list via my home set up (for now)?
For testing only, you can just use local addresses that Postfix can deliver to on the local box. Likewise, you can post from a client on the local box directly to the local Postfix. To send mail outside the box you need one of two approaches. The (IMO) better approach is to configure the local postfix to relay outgoing mail via your ISP's SMTP server. The other approach is to configure Mailman to send directly to the ISP's SMTP server using the mm_cfg.py settings SMTPHOST and SMTPPORT. The reason this is not as good is the ISP's server most likely requires authentication unless perhaps it recognizes your connection as part of it's network. If it doesn't require authentication, then this approach is at least as good as using Postfix to relay via the ISP. The issue with authentication if Mailman is delivering directly to the ISP is this requires patching Mailman. See <https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/558281>. Postfix can be configured to do the authentication without patching. See <http://www.postfix.org/SASL_README.html#client_sasl>. However, keep in mind that while this will enable Mailman to send via your ISP, the ISP may impose rate limits and other measures that prevent this from working well or at all with all but a few small, low volume lists. See also the FAQ at <http://wiki.list.org/x/j4A9>. The other half of this is delivery of incoming mail to Mailman. If you can set up lots of addresses with your ISP, you can have every [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] and [email protected] address go to your ISP and use something like fetchmail on the local box to get the mail from the ISP and deliver it to the local Postfix. See the FAQ at <http://wiki.list.org/x/OwHL> for more on both halfs. >My ultimate goal is to replace a 'list server' (Windows based) at my place >of work with Mailman running on SLES11. It will probably be much more straightforward to do that than to set up incoming and outgoing Mailman mail via your ISP. -- 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
