[Mailman-Users] Re: HELP, PLEASE: server name in admin messages

[Jon Carnes]

Have you added the virtual hosts in your ~mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py
file?  If not, I would suggest that as a good first step.

You also might want to upgrade to the latest beta release (2.1.b6).

Good Luck - Jon.

On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 14:39, Marcelo Assis wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jon Carnes" <jonc at nc.rr.com>
> Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 2:34 PM
> 
> 
> > I assume you are using Mailman version 2.0.x...
> 
> It's Mailman 2.1b3...
> 
> > Also, if you are using Sendmail, you should consider changing your MTA
> > over to Postfix which also makes handling virtual hosts much easier.
> 
> We're using Exim v3.36...
> 
> Basically we can access everything by each virtual host name, but it
> seems that in Mailman we cannot switch wich hostname is included in
> the URLs that Mailman sends out in his email messages. Is that right,
> or should that work.
> 
> We need to support at least 4 hostnames, so changing the primary
> machine hostname is not an option.
> 
> Thanks for any input!
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 12:36, Marcelo Assis wrote:
> > > Folks,
> > >
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > i posted this question yesterday, but got absolutely no response, and
> since
> > > we have our server currently stopped because of this, i will ask again
> to
> > > see if any kindred spirit might be able to offer us a little help.....
> > >
> > > The problem is we have configured a "virtual domain" for mailman,
> reflecting
> > > a hostname
> > > pointing to the mailman machine. It now seems that mailman uses the
> machiens
> > > primary name in the URL included in the mails it sends out
> (administrative
> > > messages - subscribes, unsubscribes, etc).
> > >
> > > Example:
> > > Mailman is installed on a server www.domain1.com, but the lists should
> work
> > > with www.domain2.com. The list is accepting requests on the
> > > request at domain2.com, BUT, all the admin messages are sent out with urls
> > > pointing to www.domain1.com/mailman/etc.
> > >
> > > How can we get the per list configured name there? How can we configure
> all
> > > server messages to use the list domain instead of the other one???
> > >
> > > We greatly appreciate any kind of help!
> > >
> > > thanks in advance,
> > >
> > > marcelo
> > >
> > >
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