[Mailman-Users] Virtual sites

Brad Knowles brad at stop.mail-abuse.org
Thu Sep 14 06:23:53 CEST 2006


At 1:53 PM -0400 2006-09-13, Jim Popovitch wrote:

>  The problem with this approach is that Mailman will still only use the
>  single specified mail server, rather than processing a list of
>  mailservers defined as MX records for a DNS domain.

Mailman is a Mailing List Management system.  It is not an MTA.  It 
does not do the work of an MTA.  It leave the MTA work to real MTAs 
that are designed to do that work.

Looking up MX records is the job of an MTA, not an MLM.

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