[Mailman-Users] Help with Mailman and Sendmail

[Mark Sapiro]

David Abrahams wrote:
>
>Mark, thank you!  This looks a *lot* easier than what I was trying to
>do, and perhaps the post even implies that what I was trying to do
>won't work:
>
>  "many people cannot use David Champion's mm-handler due to shared
>   use of domains"
>
>(what exactly does he mean by "shared use of domains?")


He means a given domain which is the recipient domain for both list
mail and at least some non-list mail.

mm-handler works best if the lists have their own domain which doesn't
receive non-list mail. Then Sendmail is configured so all the mail to
that domain goes to mm-handler for delivery to Mailman. If there are
other, non-list addresses in the same domain, they have to be handled
via their own aliases 'ahead of' mm-handler. If there are a lot of
these, the problem of handling the non-list addresses becomes larger
than the problem of handling list mail via aliases without mm-handler.

Of course, there are other MTAs (e.g., Exim) that can be configured to
determine whether an address should be routed to Mailman by examining
the Mailman file system to determine if a particular name is a Mailman
list, but with Sendmail, the easier way is probably the method
referenced in the FAQ.

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