[Mailman-Users] Mailman / Postfix new list issue

[Dan Offord]

On 1 July 2012 15:27, Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net> wrote:
>
> The relevant lines of which are:
>
> DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'lists.multiplay.co.uk'
> add_virtualhost('lists.multiplay.co.uk')
> DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'lists.multiplay.co.uk'
> host_name = 'lists.multiplay.co.uk'
>
> The assignment to host_name in mm_cfg.py does nothing useful. remove it.
>
> add_virtualhost() takes one or two arguments and creates a mapping from
> a url host (web host) to an email host. If the email host argument is
> ommitted, it is determined by stripping everything up to the first dot
> '.' from the url host argument. This is documented in Defaults.py
>
> # ...  If optional emailhost is
> # omitted it defaults to urlhost with the first name stripped off, e.g.
> #
> # add_virtualhost('www.dom.ain')
> # VIRTUAL_HOST['www.dom.ain']
> # ==> 'dom.ain'
>
> Thus,
>
> add_virtualhost('lists.multiplay.co.uk')
>
> is the same as
>
> add_virtualhost('lists.multiplay.co.uk', 'multiplay.co.uk')
>
> What you want in mm_cfg.py are these 3 lines in this order
>
> DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'lists.multiplay.co.uk'
> DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'lists.multiplay.co.uk'
> add_virtualhost(DEFAULT_URL_HOST, DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST)
>
> Then, you can fix the host_name of the already created list either from
> the web UI General Options page or by running fix_url {see
> <http://wiki.list.org/x/mIA9>).
>
> --
> Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net>        The highway is for gamblers,
> San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan
>

Thank you Mark,

That fixed the issue I was seeing :)

Kind Regards,

Dan Offord

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