[Mailman-Users] Virtual hosts and re-using list names

[Michael Kabot]

Jon,

As our resident Mailman experts have stated - this is not a standard feature
of the current versions.  I don't know the release date for Version 3, but
it was being talked about 2 years ago when I first started using Mailman....

I have gotten around this in the current 2.x versions by doing two things:

1. putting some filters in place to append the sitename to the mailman
listname at the time of list creation
2. adding mail aliases for the original listname at sitename that point to the
sitename-listname@ list addresses.  I am using Qmail so that is very easy to
do.

It is a crude fix but has been working well for me for over 2 years with
hundreds of domains and thousands of mailing lists.

There is a side effect that the From/Sender/Reply-To addresses of lists look
a little weird, but I have modified Mailman to fix that as well.

If you want to go down this path, feel free to contact me off list.

Mike Kabot
mkabot at soarol.com

| -----Original Message-----
| From: mailman-users-bounces+mkabot=soarol.com at python.org
| [mailto:mailman-users-bounces+mkabot=soarol.com at python.org] On Behalf
| Of Brad Knowles
| Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 12:10 PM
| To: Jon Slater
| Cc: mailman-users at python.org
| Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Virtual hosts and re-using list names
| 
| Jon Slater wrote:
| 
| > Is there a way to re-use list names for multiple virtual hosts
| without
| > running multiple instances of MM?
| 
| Not with the standard version of Mailman, no.  See FAQ 4.47 at
| <http://wiki.list.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4030604>.
| 
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