[Mailman-Developers] beta & smtp

[Ricardo Kustner]

Hi,

On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 06:55:32PM -0500, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:
>     RK> set to 'miss-janet.com' in Defaults.py ... I changed this to
>     RK> 'localhost' (in mm_cfg.py) and now it works again...  I wonder
>     RK> why it was set to miss-janet.com though... (I'm not sure if it
>     RK> was there already or was changed during the upgrade)
> This was likely a result of the upgrade.  I set SMTPHOST to the fqdn
> of the host that you're on.  However, if your machine's primary alias
> was www.miss-janet.com, the SMTPHOST got the "www." stripped off.
> I'll bet that's what we're seeing here.
> Yes this is all crufty and broken, and probably only useful for a
> small number of installations that use staging servers.  I think I
> have a not-so-drastic fix though that I'd like you to try.  See the
> patch below.
in my case, mailman runs on www1.miss-janet.com and the website
(including the A record for 'miss-janet.com') is on a entirely different
server

> BTW, I remember having some problems when using Postfix and just
> setting SMTPHOST to 'localhost', but I can't remember the details
> right now.
it seems to work ok so far so i'm not complaining :)
is that the only reason for not choosing localhost as default?

> There's currently only two, as described in Mailman/Defaults.py.
> Search for the variable DELIVERY_MODULE; there's an explanation and
> the alternative value in a comment.  Let me know if this needs more
> explaining or documenting.
later i discovered that it's mentioned in the NEWS file (thanks
to the misspelling patch posted on the list :) ) so I had a look
at Defaults.py... the info there is clear enough... 


Ricardo.

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