[Mailman-Developers] [ mailman-Feature Requests-455064 ] Use MTA on external machine via SMTP

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Feature Requests item #455064, was opened at 2001-08-24 15:20
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Category: None
Group: None
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Invalid
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Use MTA on external machine via SMTP

Initial Comment:
I know this is possible.  However, do you feel it 
would be beneficial to allow for MTA's on external 
machines to handle incoming and outgoing emails to any 
of the hosted lists?

The administrator would create an address for the list 
on the MTA machine.  Mailman would check this address 
for new messages every so often, and forward them on 
to the rest of the list using the currently opened 
connection.  During the process Mailman would need to 
complete all of its normal everyday duties just as it 
would do using an MTA on the host machine.

Bradley M. Handy
Jack-of-all-trades Programming Services
--www.jack-of-all-trades.net
--bhandy@jack-of-all-trades.net

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>Comment By: Barry Warsaw (bwarsaw)
Date: 2002-05-03 01:36

Message:
Logged In: YES 
user_id=12800

There are several solutions to moving the primary mail
processing to an external machine.  For outgoing mail it's
easy; just change the SMTPHOST and SMTPPORT in your
mm_cfg.py file.

For incoming mail you probably want to run a stripped down
smtpd that only accepts incoming connections from your
public server.  The public server must know about all the
Mailman lists, and forward messages as appropriate to the
local incoming-only smtpd.

Whether this is beneficial or not depends on your system and
network configuration!

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