[Mailman-Users] MailMan/VirtualHosts/Postfix

[Ryan Creasey]

I just recently set mailman up on my company's mailserver running
postfix and this is how I did it:

Create an alias file in the mailman install directory as user 'mailman'.
I named mine 'mm.aliases' for simplicity:

root at khyron.p11.com:/home/mail/mailman# head mm.aliases
## dcms mailing list
## created: 10-Aug-2001 root
dcms:                    "|/home/mail/mailman/mail/wrapper post dcms"
dcms-admin:              "|/home/mail/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner
dcms"
dcms-request:            "|/home/mail/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd dcms"
dcms-owner:              dcms-admin

Okay, then as user 'mailman', run postalias on the mm.aliases file,
creating a mm.aliases.db file.  Exit as user mailman and open your
postfix main.cf file.  Then add a line to your alias_maps variable like
so:

root at khyron.p11.com:/etc/postfix# cat main.cf | grep mm.aliases
alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases, hash:/home/mail/mailman/mm.aliases

Reload postfix.  Now, so far you have created a mailing list that
responds to list at machine.domain.com.  In my case, I have setup the list
'dcms at khyron.p11.com'.  However, I want this list to belong to the vhost
'housekurita.net'.  So... I keep a virtual file for each domain, all I
need to do is setup the correct pointers:

root at khyron.p11.com:/etc/postfix# cat v_housekurita.net | grep dcms
dcms at housekurita.net            dcms at khyron.p11.com
dcms-admin at housekurita.net      dcms-admin at khyron.p11.com
dcms-request at housekurita.net    dcms-request at khyron.p11.com
dcms-owner at housekurita.net      dcms-owner at khyron.p11.com

Refresh the virtual file by issuing 'postmap <virtual file>' and then
re-reload postfix: 'postfix reload'.

Once your list is setup and before you add any users, go to your admin
interface for the list you've just created and change the 'host_name'
option for the list over to your virtual host.  In my case, host_name
becomes 'housekurita.net'.  This allows mailman to send mail out as
'dcms-admin at housekurita.net' and when a user sends to the list, it hits
your virtual file, forwards it to the local machine mail, etc.

That should answer question 1, as for 2 and 3... Those can be solved by
looking over some of the options in the admin interface.

Hope that helps... :)

Ryan C. Creasey
Network Engineer
p11creative 

-----Original Message-----
From: mailman-users-admin at python.org
[mailto:mailman-users-admin at python.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Baldwin
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 3:07 PM
To: mailman-users at python.org
Subject: [Mailman-Users] MailMan/VirtualHosts/Postfix


Hello All -

I've been troubleshooting this for two days straight and cant seem to 
figure it out.. any help at all would be greatly appreciated.  I can't
get 
MailMan to work w/ postfix and virtual domains.. below is a detailed 
description of what I am running into.   Hope you can help.

System Information
-------------------

MTA = Postfix
No sites running on machines FQDN all Virtual Hosts
MailMan version 2.0.6

Install Info
----------------
First of all I follow the setup instructions and give one of my virtual 
hosts all the necessary privelages to run mailman.. then I

[root at mill96 mailman]# bin/newlist
Enter the name of the list: Tester
Enter the email of the person running the list: jeff_baldwin at unc.edu
Initial tester password: Entry for aliases file:

## tester mailing list
## created: 24-Aug-2001 baldwinj
tester:                  "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper post tester"
tester-admin:            "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner tester"
tester-request:          "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd tester"
tester-owner:            tester-admin

Hit enter to continue with tester owner notification...

**OK, so far soo good.

I get an e-mail at the address listed above.. stating that the list has 
been created at the FQDN of the machine.. NOT the virtual host that I
gave 
permissions to this dir.  Thats ok, I just make a couple changes in the 
admin interface to ref. the virtual host.  Users can now go to the
"virtual 
host" to the mailman area and subscribe to the list.

When a user subscribes... he gets the "are you sure" message in their 
inbox.. so far so good.. when they reply to this message to confirm..
they 
never get a confirmation.. I looked and seen that their request was
pending 
so I added them manuall... is there no way for mailman to automate the 
addition of users?

I went ahead and added the users manually.. but now when they post a 
message to the specified e-mail address listname at virtualhost.org no one 
ever sees the message.. it just goes off never to be seen again.

Here are copies of my Postfix Virtual and Aliases files..

/etc/postfix/aliases

<--snip-->
#MailMan Owners
mailman:  jeff_baldwin at unc.edu
mailman-owner:  mailman

## engarde mailing list
## created: 24-Aug-2001 baldwinj
engarde:                 "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper post engarde"
engarde-admin:           "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner engarde"
engarde-request:         "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd engarde"
engarde-owner:           engarde-admin
<--snip-->

/etc/postfix/virtual

mill92.cep.unc.edu      VIRTUALDOMAIN

engarde at mill92.cep.unc.edu               list-engarde-mill92.cep.unc.edu
engarde-admin at mill92.cep.unc.edu        list-engarde-mill92.cep.unc.edu
engarde-request at mill92.cep.unc.edu       list-engarde-mill92.cep.unc.edu
engarde-owner at mill92.cep.unc.edu         list-engarde-mill92.cep.unc.edu

Any help would be greatly appreciated.. I guess my questions are....

1.  Is there no way to specify a virtual host when creating a list 2.
Is there a way to automate the adding of users.. instead of it being 
"pending" till I do it manuall?

3.  Why can't anyone see the e-mail that is being sent to the list addy?

Thanks


==================================================
Jeff Baldwin
Computer Consultant II
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

Phone:  (919) 966-0096
Fax:    (919) 966-0042
E-Mail: jeff_baldwin at unc.edu
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