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| author | Barry Warsaw | 2012-09-05 21:30:35 -0400 |
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| committer | Barry Warsaw | 2012-09-05 21:30:35 -0400 |
| commit | 89dcd0c5fbbd2e5b09af6d0575d7a4bcec241dfa (patch) | |
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Documentation updates for beta 2.
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diff --git a/src/mailman/docs/MTA.rst b/src/mailman/docs/MTA.rst index f541d3838..c6d2230c4 100644 --- a/src/mailman/docs/MTA.rst +++ b/src/mailman/docs/MTA.rst @@ -2,9 +2,10 @@ Hooking up your mail server =========================== -Mailman needs to be hooked up to your mail server both to accept incoming mail -and to deliver outgoing mail. Mailman itself never delivers messages to the -end user; it lets its immediate upstream mail server do that. +Mailman needs to be hooked up to your mail server (a.k.a. *mail transport +agent* or *MTA*) both to accept incoming mail and to deliver outgoing mail. +Mailman itself never delivers messages to the end user; it lets its immediate +upstream mail server do that. The preferred way to allow Mailman to accept incoming messages from your mail server is to use the `Local Mail Transfer Protocol`_ (LMTP_) interface. Most @@ -32,6 +33,9 @@ Contributions are welcome! Postfix ======= +Postfix_ is an open source mail server by Wietse Venema. + + Mailman settings ---------------- @@ -58,9 +62,9 @@ as shown above. Basic Postfix connections ------------------------- -There are several ways to hook Postfix_ up to Mailman, so here are the -simplest instructions. The following settings should be added to Postfix's -`main.cf` file. +There are several ways to hook Postfix up to Mailman, so here are the simplest +instructions. The following settings should be added to Postfix's `main.cf` +file. Mailman supports a technique called `Variable Envelope Return Path`_ (VERP) to disambiguate and accurately record bounces. By default Mailman's VERP |