Install mailman on the web server.
On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 23:24, Kevin Brown wrote:
> Situation:
>
> I'm looking for mailing list software to help out (at least initially) a
> PR employee. Here's the situation:
>
> The companies current mail setup is standardized on using
> Outlook/Exchange. Currently the PR employee maintains a distribution
> list in her Outlook Contacts. The problem is, the list is having to be
> manually maintained and has grown larger than Outlook allows for a
> single distribution list.
>
> I brought up the idea of using a mailing list system to handle this load.
>
> There are two possible points where the mailing list could be run. A
> company is hosting a frontend email server for so all inbound mail has
> to go through it before coming to our exchange server. This is running
> qmail on Linux. The other point this could be run at is on the web
> server which also has an instance of qmail installed on it.
>
> From what I've gathered, the requirements for the list software are:
>
> All mail must look like it is coming from the PR employees email address
> All mail must seem to be going to just the recipient (makes the email
> look like a personal mail)
> Only certain email addresses should be able to send mail to the list
> (restricted to moderators, not just subscribers)
>
> The problems:
>
> If the software runs on the frontend email server, then it isn't under
> our control.
>
> If the software runs on the web server, then it can't receive mail
> itself for the mailing list software since all mail for our domain goes
> through the remote frontend servers which are only set to forward to the
> Exchange system.
>
> Also, due to limitations in Exchange (or so I'm led to believe) it won't
> send emails for an address in its domain out to a remote box, so the PR
> employee (and potentially other groups that might want to use a system
> like this) can't just create an email to the list and get it to work.
>
The above is completely incorrect. Exchange can indeed forward selected
mail address' to a different machine. As to how it's done I don't know
but I know it works.
> e.g. Exchange controls domain.com. You can't send an email to
> maillist@domain.com and have it go to maillist@frontend.com.
>
> Anyone have some pointers to help out with? I'd prefer to stick to
> Free/Open software if that is possible.
>
>
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