[Mailman-Users] virtual hosting

[Jon Carnes]

On Fri, 2003-04-25 at 06:19, Dan Langille wrote:
> On 24 Apr 2003 at 21:42, admin2 wrote:
> 
> > OS:  FreeBSD 4.7
> > Mailman:  2.1.1
> 
> I am using the same.
> 
> > Okay I am getting a little confused here.  Is there a good link out there that
> > steps an admin through setting up mailman for virtual hosting?
> 
> Not that I've found.  I've been trying to write one, but I've not 
> been able to solve two basic problems.
> 
> I've been attempting to migrate freebsddiary.org and freshports.org 
> mailing lists from majordomo to mailman.  I've found the 
> administration interface and the the user interface to be much 
> better, but it seems much more difficult to do things that are fairly 
> well documented for majordomo. The two main blocks I've encountered 
> are:
> 
> 1 - You cannot have two mailing lists with the same name in two 
> different domains and obtain satisfactory results:
> 
The way we currently get around this, is to make an install of Mailman
for each domain.  This is actually well documented in the Archives.

When making a domain specific install, you must create a user/group name
that is specific to the install (like "mailman-domain1") and install it
in its own directory: /usr/local/mailman-domain1

> 2 - The install instructions for mailman indicate that you must 
> create a "site wide" mailing list titled 'mailman'.  It's unclear 
> whether or not you need just one per mailman installation or per 
> domain.  

One per installation.  So if you have two virtual domains, then you
would install Mailman twice (if you want to have simple lists with
common names for each domain - ie. suppport at domain1.com and
support at domain2.com).


HtH - Jon Carnes