At 12:47 PM 3/23/96, "Jason A. Dour aka Dark Father Amadeus"
<jadour01@homer.louisvi wrote:
> My question for Brent (and everyone else as well), is this: does
>this present major problems when using some listserving software (in this
>case, Mdomo)? Theoretically, I could have a forward lookup table that
>resolved:
>
> majordomo@other.com -> "wrapper... blah blah blah"
> some-list@other.com -> "wrapper resend ... blah blah blah"
>
>And then when Mdomo resent the mail, the outgoing lookups would be resolved
>as:
>
> majordomo-other@some.where.com -> majordomo@other.com
> some-unique-list@some.where.com -> some-list@other.com
>
>This way, you get both incoming and outgoing handled at the MTA level, with
>less tweaking at the Mdomo level...theoretically.
But not in practice. Majordomo places email addresses within message
bodies in several cases; for example, when generating APPROVAL requests to
list owners, or welcome messages back to new subscribers. Since these
email addresses are in the bodies of the messages, your rewrite stuff won't
touch them. So you have to make sure that the right addresses go into the
bodies in the first place.
I do this by creating a separate installation of Majordomo for each phantom
domain. Each installation has a copy of the "wrapper" program that's
compiled to refer to that installation's directories, .cf file, etc. Then,
in the aliases, I choose which installation to invoke by choosing which
copy of "wrapper" I run.
Note that if you're using the Sendmail smrsh security patch, you'll have to
name the various wrapper programs something unique (for example,
"wrapper-domain1", "wrapper-domain2", etc.), since they (or links to them)
all have to reside in the same smrsh directory.
-Brent
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