Sendmail / Exchange / Mailman - Resources and suggestons

Deron Meranda deron.meranda at gmail.com
Tue Mar 8 16:34:29 UTC 2005


On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 13:22:59 +0000, James Wilkinson
<james at westexe.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> Tim Holmes wrote:
> If you want maillist at example.com as the mailing list name, I think you
> have to set up a maillist at example.com mailbox on Exchange, a custom
> recipient maillist at fedora.example.com, set Exchange to route e-mail to
> fedora.example.com to the right IP address, and set maillist at example.com
> to deliver to the @fedora address. It's not difficult to do this, but
> details are version-specific and *way* off-topic.

A proper mailing list is more than a single mailbox.  You also
need to supply xxx-request and possibly xxx-owner mailboxes too.  It
would be a good idea to read RFC 2142 and even 2369.

Again the book Managing Mailing Lists will be quite useful.

As for integrating with Exhange, good luck.  I've used a Linux/sendmail
to act as the Internet-facing gateway for Exchange, but not the other
way around.

Another possible thing to consider would be creating a subdomain
strictly for mailling lists separate from your Exchange's DNS domain.
Then set up your MX records appropriately, maybe just for a quick
example,

   acme.org. IN MX 20 exchange.acme.org.
   list.acme.org. IN MX 20 linux.acme.org.

Then you name you mailing list address something like
  <joes-zine at list.acme.org>
and Exchange is never in the picture at all.

Don't know if that will work, but it's an idea.
-- 
Deron Meranda




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