[Web Comm] RE: WWW migration

[Frank Warmerdam]

Auke Jilderda wrote:
> On 07 September 2006 16:05, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
>> The only thing I would add to what Jason has written is that we would
>> also like to be aware of the effects this might have on mail handling
>> for the osgeo.org domain.  We have a few aliases, such as
>> info at osgeo.org that we would like to have go somewhere sensible.  Can
>> we provide a custom MX record for the osgeo.org domain?  Is this going
>> to interfere in any way with the MX records for the subdomains?
>>
>> I'll add I don't know even as much about how email works as might seem
>> to be implied by talking about MX records, so don't assume too much
>> about my level of understanding.
> 
> Does Drupal contain an MTA and its own mail domain?

Auke,

I don't think the intention was to directly manage email through Drupal.  I
was expecting to use a conventional mail queue software (sendmail?), and
Mailman as the mailing list manager.  But I think if we can ensure that we
can direct email to a given machine we can take care of getting it processed.

With appropriate warning, etc.

Also, for the time being if the mail can continue to be processed via the
existing lists on CN that would also be fine.  But my concern was whether
this would be "managable" when the www.osgeo.org http/https is all going
elsewhere (ie. Drupal).

Best regards,
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