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6 Set up your mail server
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This section describes some of the things you need to do to connect Mailman's
email interface to your mail server.  The instructions here are different for
each mail server; if your mail server is not described in the following
subsections, try to generalize from the existing documentation, and consider
contributing documentation updates to the Mailman developers.

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Under rare circumstances or due to mis-configuration, mail to the owner(s) of
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