Posted by Fryth on Mon 12 Dec 2005 at 12:47
I'm trying to set up a Mailman list server using Postfix under Debian to handle our mailing lists. Unfortunately, we don't have the ability to run a mail server on port 25, as it is firewalled, and the only destination IP allowed for that port is our ISP's mail server.
I believe I can get this to work using mail accounts created on our ISP's mail server, using fetchmail to retrieve mail periodically, and then SASL2 in postfix to bounce the outgoing mail off the ISP.
Fetchmail does not need to run very often, as it will only be handling subscription requests, not posts from users. (We, the staff, will be the only ones posting to the list.)
Has anyone setup a mailman installation successfully without all the abilities of a real mail server?
Do I really need mail accounts for all those list aliases?
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