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diff --git a/src/mailman/docs/MTA.rst b/src/mailman/docs/MTA.rst index aa53981f8..6e7b4cf9f 100644 --- a/src/mailman/docs/MTA.rst +++ b/src/mailman/docs/MTA.rst @@ -9,27 +9,23 @@ 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 -open source mail server support LMTP for local delivery, and this is much more +open source mail servers support LMTP for local delivery. This is much more efficient than spawning a process just to do the delivery. -Your mail server should also accept `Simple Mail Transfer Protocol`_ (SMTP_) +Your mail server must also accept `Simple Mail Transfer Protocol`_ (SMTP_) connections from Mailman, for all outgoing messages. The specific instructions for hooking your mail server up to Mailman differs -depending on which mail server you're using. The following are instructions -for the popular open source mail servers. +depending on which mail server you're using. Following are instructions for +Postfix. We would really appreciate contributions of configurations for Exim +and Sendmail, and welcome information about other popular open source mail +servers. Note that Mailman provides lots of configuration variables that you can use to tweak performance for your operating environment. See the ``src/mailman/config/schema.cfg`` file for details. -Exim -==== - -Contributions are welcome! - - Postfix ======= @@ -131,6 +127,12 @@ the Postfix documentation at: .. _`mydestination`: http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#mydestination +Exim +==== + +Contributions are welcome! + + Sendmail ======== |