Topic: Handling mailing lists

[Steve Grillo]

Hello All:

I'm getting familiar with e-smith 3.1 on a new isolated machine, which will become our gateway/email/web server as soon as our DSL access is completed in the next 3-4 weeks.  Until then, I want to plan and test as much as possible so the switchover is as simple and painless as possible.

Anyway, the question is:  How can I have mail lists sent to my email recipients get to them properly?  Some of my people get email via these lists, and in our current situation, I get all of them and have to re-direct them to each person - what a pain...

So - can e-smith 3.1 (or 4.x for that matter) solve this?  If not automatically, can it let me do it with some manual tweaking?

Thanks in advance from this newbie.

[Joseph Morrison]

Steve Grillo wrote:
> Anyway, the question is:  How can I have mail lists sent to my
> email recipients get to them properly?  Some of my people get
> email via these lists, and in our current situation, I get all
> of them and have to re-direct them to each person - what a
> pain...

Are you using the multi-drop setup? This problem is inherent to all multi-drop configurations, no matter which email software you're using. If your ISP has their mail server configured to put the correct addressee for each message into a field such as X-Delivered-To then you can configure e-smith to look for this field, which will solve the problem. (Normally the true addressee information is discarded and the e-smith software has to guess the addressee information from the "To:" or other field.)

But a better solution is to use the standard configuration (if you have a static IP and dedicated internet connection) or the ETRN configuration (if you have a static IP and dial-on-demand connection).

Best regards,
- Joe

[Steve Grillo]

As far as multi-drop or not, I'm not using ANYTHING yet (not via e-smith anyway).  

When I start using e-smith, though, to handle our email, we'll be doing the email totally via e-smith using static IP addresses.

We'll have 6 IP addresses from our DSL provider that I expect we'll use as the web-server, email-server, and the others will be un-used.

So with e-smith handling the email completely, can we solve this problem of the mailing-lists?

[Joseph Morrison]

Steve Grillo wrote:

> When I start using e-smith, though, to handle our email, we'll
> be doing the email totally via e-smith using static IP
> addresses.
> ...
> So with e-smith handling the email completely, can we solve
> this problem of the mailing-lists?

In this configuration there will be no problem at all with mailing lists. Any email sent to your domain will be delivered over your dedicated connection directly to your e-smith server and dropped into the right mailbox.

Best regards,
- Joe