[Mailman-Users] [Repost] Internal vs. external mail addresses

[Brad Knowles]

At 12:41 PM -0500 2004/02/27, Paul Smith wrote:

>  Hm.  What about something that sits between the MDA and Mailman and
>  makes this translation?  Does that seem feasible?

	What would you put there?  How would that program work?

>                                                     Would this require
>  changing the alias for each list, for example, or is there another way
>  to do this from within the MTA?  I'm using postfix.

	You could probably configure postfix to use a different local 
delivery agent, one that was configured to munge all addresses 
appropriately, before handling as would previously have been done.

	Regardless how you do it, you've got a fair amount of program 
writing to do.

>  As I said, that would be good but is utterly out of the question.  The
>  people in charge of all the mail infrastructure will never do that.

	Then you may well be permanently screwed, depending on how much 
damage their servers cause to the e-mail addresses in question.

-- 
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