[Mailman-Users] qmail-to-mailman.py qmail vpopmail > bad combo?

Jon Carnes jonc at nc.rr.com
Mon Feb 3 01:05:03 CET 2003


Are you remembering to setup the Virtual domains inside
~mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py?  If Mailman does not see the virtual domain
defined in mm_cfg.py then it will only attempt local mailing via the
default domain.

On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 18:25, df at dune.org wrote:
> In my attempts to get qmail-to-mailman.py to work with mailman_2.1/qmail/vpopmail on FreeBSD 4.7_stable..
> -All the previous softwares were installed from port tree-
> 
> ---
> Note, for further references:
> domain.com = mydomain
> ml.domain.com = virtual domain used for mailman 
> host.domain.com = my qmail server
> ----
> 
> After install here is what I do:
> 
>  /var/qmail/bin/maildirmake /usr/local/mailman/Maildir  - i use the /var/qmail/boot/home script -
> 
> cp ../whatever/qmail-to-mailman.py /usr/local/mailman/
> 
> vi qmail-to-mailman.py :
>     MailmanHome = "/usr/local/mailman"
>     MailmanOwner = postmaster at mydomain.com
> 
> vi /usr/local/mailman/.qmail-default
>     |preline /usr/local/bin/python /usr/local/mailman/qmail-to-mailman.py
> 
> touch /usr/local/mailman/.qmail-owner
> 
> /usr/local/mailman/bin/check_perms -f     (as root)
> 
> vi /var/qmail/virtualdomains
>     ml.domain.com:mailman
> 
> - note: the mailman 2.1 port for FreeBSD now loads the ~mailman/cron/crontab.in automaticaly on install..
> so i don't install it here -
> 
> /var/qmail/rc stop
> /var/qmail/rc start
> /usr/local/mailman/bin/mailmanctl start
> 
> ---
> 
> That's for the setup,
> Now comes the testing
> 
> i created a "testlist" using /usr/local/mailman/bin/newlist ..
> (received the greeting email on list creation)
> 
> i edited the list property, adding my email as list moderator.
> 
> and than emailed testlist at ml.domain.com
> 
> while watching my /var/log/maillog i noticed the following:
> the qmail-to-mailman.py seems to grab correctly the incoming testlist at ml.domain.com email, but tryes to forward it 
> to testlist-xxxxx at host.domain.com.. witch doesn't exist.
> 
> on my client pc, i receive an email from testlist-bounce at ml.domain.com telling me the mail is held for approval.
> In the same time i also receive a mailer-daemon msg with the field to: testlist-bounce at host.domain.com
> 
> so my guess is qmail-to-mailman.py gets the mail correctly, but forwards it to the wrong domain ?
> should'nt it forward the email to testlist-bounce at ml.domain.com and therefore to mailman ?
> 
> 
> Any help or suggestions are highly welcomed.
> 
> Regards.
> 
> df at dune.org
> 
> 
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