Configuring mailman with web server different from mail server

[Chuck Swiger]

On Aug 20, 2007, at 9:51 PM, Olivier Nicole wrote:
> I am trying to install mailman from the ports.
>
> I have different machine for the mail server and the web server and I
> am trying to figure if this configuration is workable.
>
> The MTA is sendmail, where could I find configure example?

You can have Mailman use a non-local SMTP server by adjusting the  
Mailman/mm_cfg.py file (see Defaults.py), but it's somewhat annoying  
to do this as you will have to copy over the list aliases onto the  
mailserver, rather than having the newlist command do so  
automagically for you.

I suppose you could do the same for a non-local webserver, but that  
would be even more difficult: you'd almost have to set up filesharing  
between the two machines so that the list archives and the various  
Mailman web resources are available on the webserver.

If you've already got a webserver somewhere that you'd want to use,  
you'd be better off running Mailman on there....

-- 
-Chuck