[TriLUG] fairly noob Mailman question

[Jon Carnes]

On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 17:57, Ryan Wheaton wrote:

> in order for me to access Mailman from the outside, do i have to stick 
> it in a DMZ or out on it's own with it's own resove- able host name?  
> am i missing something in the mailman config?
> 
Well, yeah!

You can actually make Mailman believe that it's URL is the external
resolvable one - of course you'll always have to access it via the
redirect (unless you define the external site name in your hosts file
and point it to the local address).

Note: You may lose all your Post-ed data by doing the redirect (unless
your doing actual port-forwarding). Losing the Post-ed data would make
access to the Mailman website fairly worthless.

To change the base URL used by a list you will need to edit
~mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py and add the external URL as a virtual host
then employ the "withlist -r fix_url" command to change the URL on the
existing lists so that they now use the Virtual ones setup in the
configuration file.

Sigh... It's a lot easier to fix in 2.0.x

> thanks,
> -rtw

Good Luck - Jon Carnes