[Mailman-Users] setting to use IP address rather than normal URL

Jeff Grossman jeffg at turners.com
Tue May 31 05:26:58 CEST 2011


On Mon, 30 May 2011 13:19:29 -0700 (PDT), coldbee <colby.ray at gmail.com>
wrote:
> We are hosting our website on a different web host than the email and
> Mailman
> mailing lists. This is causing problems with the Admin side of Mailman
as
> the DNS servers point to the web site host and not the mail host. I can
get
> around it for much of the admin tasks by changing the URL to the IP
address
> except for some (i.e. moderating). Is there someplace in Mailman where I
> can
> input the IP address so it always goes there instead of the normal URL
> (i.e.
> website.com)?
> 
> TIA!

I don't have an answer to your question, but do you have access to your
DNS servers?  If so, I would recommend you create a host address like
lists.example.com and have that point to your e-mail server.  That way all
of your url redirects will work correctly.

Jeff


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