[Mailman-Users] true virtual hosting with mailman-2.1.5

[Mark Sapiro]

Christian Anton wrote:
>
>Adding a new 
>list with the shell command
>'newlist liste2 at lists.citservice.de' creates a new list, very fine. I 
>get the message from mailman that my new list is created. But the 
>automatically created virtual_mailman file is wrong format:
>
>liste2-lists.citservice.de at lists.citservice.de              
>liste2-lists.citservice.de
>liste2-lists.citservice.de-admin at lists.citservice.de        
>liste2-lists.citservice.de-admin
>liste2-lists.citservice.de-bounces at lists.citservice.de      
>liste2-lists.citservice.de-bounces
>liste2-lists.citservice.de-confirm at lists.citservice.de      
>liste2-lists.citservice.de-confirm
>liste2-lists.citservice.de-join at lists.citservice.de         
>liste2-lists.citservice.de-join
>liste2-lists.citservice.de-leave at lists.citservice.de        
>liste2-lists.citservice.de-leave
>liste2-lists.citservice.de-owner at lists.citservice.de        
>liste2-lists.citservice.de-owner
>liste2-lists.citservice.de-request at lists.citservice.de      
>liste2-lists.citservice.de-request
>liste2-lists.citservice.de-subscribe at lists.citservice.de    
>liste2-lists.citservice.de-subscribe
>liste2-lists.citservice.de-unsubscribe at lists.citservice.de  
>liste2-lists.citservice.de-unsubscribe
>
>when it would have to be
>liste2 at lists.citservice.de  liste2-lists.citservice.de
>liste2-admin at lists.citservice.de  liste2-lists.citservice.de-admin
>
>Can you tell me what i didn't understand?

Standard unpatched Mailman supports virtual hosts but with the
restriction that two lists on two different hosts cannot have the same
name.

The patch you installed attempts to overcome this restriction by
appending the domain name to the list name in order to create a unique
name for all lists.

It does look like there is an issue with the generated aliases created
when this patch is used. This issue would have to be discussed with
the originator of the patch.

Note that if you are willing to accept the "unique naming" restriction,
you can use Mailman in a virtual hosting environment without patching.

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