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[Miles Fidelman <address@concealed>]

On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Olivier Salaun - CRU wrote:

> (1) Your sympa must be confusing the default robot and the
> lists.neighborhoods.net V. Robot
> because they have the same IP domain.

Ahhh.. that explains it.

> The default robot and the
> lists.neighborhoods.net Virtual Robot should have :
>     * different host parameter (used to determine the robot when
> receiving emails)
>     * different http_host parameter (used to determine the robot on the
> web interface)
>
> It obliges you to have a ?dummy? (not used) default robot (sympa.conf).
>

for the dummy robot, can the host and http_host parameters be for
a non-existant domain?

> (2) Another solution is to have :
>     * lists.neighborhoods.net as the default config (sympa.conf)
>     * lists.munitelecom.org as the only Virtual robot
>
> Did I make it clear ?

Yes, thanks!

> We adopted solution (2) for our own ML server (7 Virtual Servers)
> because it provides more flexibility to define defaults compared to (1).

I think that's what I'll do. It lets me avoid dealing with moving a
couple of lists from the default robot to a new robot.

Regards,

Miles Fidelman

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