[Mailman-Users] virtualhost clarification

[Thomas Schröer]

Hello,

I had a similar problem, even though the other way around (I wanted to have
the realhost "adr at host.domain.tld", but got only "adr at domain.tld"). Anyway,
in my case it was a "sendmail" problem. "sendmail" can be configured to
"masquerade" the host/domain, so that in every outgoing mail the address
is replaced by the setting of this option. Because "mailman" is delivering
any mail to the MTA (i. e. "sendmail"), this setting supersedes everything
that mailman is configured for.

As soon as I fixed this setting of sendmail, I got what I wanted as "From:"
address.

HTH

Tom

Bradley Glonka wrote:
> Thanks for the feedback but my problem is not trying to change a list. 
> Things are set as I mentioned below and I've restarted mailman.  My from
> address is still showing as realhost.domain.com   Isn't it the purpose
> of add_virtualhost to make the From: line some other value?  Is there a
> doc that says how to use add_virtualhost?
> 
> I've even tried creating the list like
> bin/newlist listname at lists.domain.com  <--- This didn't help
> 
> 
> mm_cfg.py:
> ---------------------------------------------
> OWNERS_CAN_ENABLE_PERSONALIZATION = 1
> DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'lists.domain.com'
> DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'lists.domain.com'
> DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN = 'https://%s/mailman/'
> add_virtualhost(DEFAULT_URL_HOST, DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST)
> DEFAULT_HOST_NAME = 'lists.domain.com'
> 
> 
> Defaults.py
> ---------------------------------------------
> DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'lists.domain.com'
> DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'lists.domain.com'
> DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN = 'http://%s/mailman/'
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks
> Brad
> 
> 
> 
> 
>>There is a FAQ entry on thius topic. As it points out, changing things 
>>in mm_cfg.pyt will not affect existing lists. For that you need to run 
>>fix_url.py; see the FAQ entry:
>>
>>http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.029.htp
>>
>>On Saturday, July 19, 2003, at 05:57 PM, Bradley Glonka wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>Bradley Glonka wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>I want emails to look as though they are coming from the virtual 
>>>>>hosts
>>>>>address (lists.domain.com).  However the from address says
>>>>>From: list at realhostname.domain.com.
>>>>
>>>>[...]
>>>>
>>>>>I've added the following to mm_cfg.py
>>>>>
>>>>>add_virtualhost(DEFAULT_URL_HOST, DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST)
>>>>>OWNERS_CAN_ENABLE_PERSONALIZATION = 1
>>>>>DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'lists.domain.com'
>>>>>DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'lists.domain.com'
>>>>>DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN = 'https://%s/mailman/'
>>>>
>>>>[...]
>>>>
>>>>>From the INSTALL file:
>>>>>----------------------------------------------------------
>>>>>    - Check the values for DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST and DEFAULT_URL_HOST in
>>>>>      Defaults.py.  Make any necessary changes in the mm_cfg.py file.
>>>>>      Note that if you change either of these two values, you'll want
>>>>>      to add the following afterwards in the mm_cfg.py file:
>>>>
>>>>                             ^^^^^^^^^^
>>>>
>>>>>          add_virtualhost(DEFAULT_URL_HOST, DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST)
>>>>
>>>>I could be wrong (and I could just still be asleep), but I believe 
>>>>you want
>>>>to move the add_virtualhost line *below* the the DEFAULT_*_HOST 
>>>>settings.
>>>>And then be sure to restart the mailmanctl daemon.
>>>
>>>No Luck!!
>>>I'm wondering if I'm using add_virtualhost incorrectly?
>>>Maybe its usage is:
>>>add_virtualhost('lists.domain.com', 'lists.domains.com')
>>>????
>>>
>>>OR maybe this is a function of Sendmail?  (I don't think so) I'm using 
>>>a default
>>>Red Hat config of sendmail.
>>>
>>>Or maybe the add_virtualhost needs to be in the Default.py?
>>>
>>>--