[TriLUG] Mailman Setup?

[Joseph Tate]

You have to have an mta on the box.  How else are you going to receive 
mail to be distributed to the list subscribers?  I could be missing 
something, but I don't think you can use an mta on a separate box.

Joseph

Ryan Wheaton wrote:

> As far as an MTA goes...  do I have to use sendmail locally on the 
> box?  Or can I point Mailman to another MTA (*cough*cough* exchange 
> 5.5) and have it send through that?  If not then it's not too 
> difficult to set up sendmail as a smart host and point that to the 
> exchange box.
>
> thanks again,
>
> -r
>
> At 04:57 PM 8/18/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>
>> Use the official Red Hat 9 RPMs.  Make sure you know where your 
>> aliases file is and how to rebuild the aliases.db file for your MTA.  
>> Other than that, make sure you have a mailman list, and that you're 
>> subscribed to it.  --help is your friend, and the tools are all in 
>> /var/lib/mailman/bin.
>>
>> Joseph
>>
>> Ryan Wheaton wrote:
>>
>>> hey guys,
>>>
>>> Probably tomorrow I'm gonna dive head first into my first install of 
>>> Mailman (2.1) on a fresh install of RH 9.  I can't find too much 
>>> documentation on installation or setup of Mailman (haven't checked 
>>> the READMEs that come in the .gz yet) so I'm assuming that most 
>>> everything is in the READMEs.  Just wanted to ping the list and see 
>>> if there's anything I should know before jumping in, or if anyone 
>>> had any good links to some docs.  I've googled, but can't find 
>>> much.  I figure someone has something to say since i'm positive that 
>>> _someone_ here has installed it before :-)
>>>
>>> -r
>>
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