[Mailman-Users] webmail issues

[Jon Carnes]

You will need to either move to Mailman v2.1 (in alpha) or use ezmlm.
Webumake requires each message to be sent individually and the header to be
set to the exact individual.  That functionality is an option in version 2.1
of Mailman, and a built-in "feature" of ezmlm.

That's fine but it really removes a great deal of functionality from
Mailman.  Part of Mailman's existing optimizations is that it will send one
email to a mailserver that will go to many individuals on that mailserver.
As an example, if you have 400 people from aol on your list, Mailman will
only send out 8 messages to aol's mailservers and let aol break those
messages out to each individual.  This is much more efficient than sending
400 individual emails.

I'm curious though about the functionality of Webumake.  Is it actually
acting as your MTA?  does it supercede Sendmail or can it work in
conjunction with Sendmail?  If the two can work together, then you should be
able to eat your cake, and have it too.  Sendmail has no problems in sending
out to a general list.

Jon Carnes
----- Original Message -----
From: "webmaster" <webmaster at carpemail.com>
To: <mailman-users at python.org>
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 11:27 AM
Subject: [Mailman-Users] webmail issues


> Hello, i am starting a webmail service, we are using  webumake mail
> to serve this service.
>
> My service is aimed at a niche market in which yahoo groups are
> popular, but webumake mail does not work with yahoo groups, but
> webumake support claim it will work will Mailman.
>
> I have setup a test list and tried this, although i have been able to
> register and receive the confirmation email, it fails to register new
> user and account cannot receive email from list.
>
>
> The list does work as i have signed up with normal pop account,
> webumake give the following reasons why it will not work:
>
> ------------------------
> The problem is that email received into the catchall account must
> have the intended recipient somewhere in the email header for
> WebUMake Mail (and any such web-based email product, for that matter)
> to determine who the email is intended for. Unfortunately, some
> mailing list software persists in defying RFC's and doesn't
> provide the recipient information in the standard headers. We have
> developed a method to check the last Received: header element and
> check it for the "for" text that on most SMTP servers contains the
> recipient (though this isn't where it should appear, it should
> _always_ be in the To: or Cc: fields according to RFC's).
>
> If your mail is not being received into WebUMake then the last
> Received: header record is not being formatted with a "for" statement
> for the intended recipient by your SMTP server either and so the
> product has no way of knowing who the email is for.
>
> If you can configure mailman to send the emails and include the
> recipient in the To: field, or configure your SMTP server to
> specifying the "for" element of the Received: header record then
> WebUMake Mail will pick it up.
> ------------------------
>
> Is there any particular setting i have to change?
>
>
> many thanks
> --
> webmaster, webmaster at carpemail.com on 25/02/2002
>
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