[Mailman-Users] How to change 'from' address for admin messages

[Jon Carnes]

You might try defining the virtual server portions of mm_cfg.py (see
~mailman/Mailman/Defaults.py for the proper syntax...)

OTOH, both postfix and qmail have the ability to modify the "From" of a
locally sent email. So does Sendmail if you set up the Generics tables...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Harwood, AS (Andrew) " <A.S.Harwood at rl.ac.uk>
To: "'Jon Carnes'" <jonc at nc.rr.com>
Cc: <mailman-users at python.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 2:44 AM
Subject: RE: [Mailman-Users] How to change 'from' address for admin messages


> I'm using Mailman 2.1 and the sendmail that comes with Tru64 Unix (it
seems
> to have the
> version number 8.8.8).
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jon Carnes [mailto:jonc at nc.rr.com]
> > Sent: 06 February 2003 01:24
> > To: Harwood, AS (Andrew)
> > Cc: 'mailman-users at python.org'
> > Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] How to change 'from' address for admin
> > messages
> >
> >
> > What version of Mailman are you using and what is your MTA. Version
> > 2.1.x has much better virtual host control.
> >
> > Also, Postfix has much better virtual host control than sendmail.
> >
> > On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 10:47, Harwood, AS (Andrew) wrote:
> > > I am having difficulty working out how I can change the
> > 'from' address that
> > > mailman admin messages come from. I have set up mailman on
> > our machine
> > > tornado.badc.rl.ac.uk. I would prefer that mail appears to come from
> > > 'ncas.nerc.ac.uk', which is a valid alias for this machine.
> > How do I do
> > > this? I have tried setting 'Host name this list prefers for
> > email', but this
> > > does not appear to make any difference. What determines
> > which host the
> > > messages appear to come from? Thanks.
> > >
> > >
> > > Andrew Harwood
> > > Infrastructure Manager
> > > BADC, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
> > >
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