Laurens Kils-Hütten writes:
I understand mailman will send messages via NNTP. But how about the other way round?
Mailman will function as an NNTP client on behalf of a list in both directions.
What I'm trying is setting up INN so it sends messages for the list to the respective list address.
I would not do that.
Asymmetric paths are usually headaches to deal with. For example, I seem to recall that there were news clients that had a "post and mail" operation. Mailman does not deduplicate across messages (the subscriber "no dups" setting is used to keep an explicitly addressed subscriber in To or CC from receiving both a direct mail copy and the list copy, not keeping Mailman from receiving and distributing the same message twice), so in that case without a custom rule to discard duplicate messages, Mailman might receive and distribute the exact same message twice, once received via NNTP and once via LMTP.
But could mailman also pull news from nntp? And is that what the "News to Mail" flag is supposed to do?
Yes and yes,
Steve
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