[Mailman-Users] fetchmailrc and Mailman

[Bob Nielsen]

On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 04:20:42PM -0500, Tom Caudron wrote:
> I'm trying to administer several small mailing lists on my home server. 
> I have a domain mx server hosted elsewhere and I want to grab the mail
> from the list accounts, and forward them to the approriate list members.
> 
> On the home server, I've got postfix for smtp (thanks to Simon White for
> that!  It was much easier to work with postfix/mailman than
> qmail/mailman), mailman for the lists, and fetchmail to poll the remote
> accounts.
> 
> Postfix and Mailman seem to be talking nicely.  If a member is added, he
> gets a message, etc....  However, I'm confused as to how to get
> fetchmail to work with mailman.
> 
> Fetchmail insists that I have a /etc/fetchmailrc file.  In that file, I
> have this:
> 
> ----
> # wake fetchmail daemon up every 60 seconds
> set daemon 60
> 
> # mailinglist1 mailing list
> poll pop.MyMXDomain.com protocol pop3
>         username mailinglist1uid with         #list address
>         password secretword, is mailman here;
> poll pop.MyMXDomain.com protocol pop3         #list request address
>         username mailinglist1requestuid with
>         password secretword, is mailman here;
> poll pop.MyMXDomain.com protocol pop3         #list admin address
>         username mailinglist1adminuid with
>         password secretword, is mailman here;
> 
> # mailinglist2 mailing list
> poll pop.MyMXDomain.com protocol pop3
>         username mailinglist2uid with         #list address
>         password secretword, is mailman here;
> poll pop.MyMXDomain.com protocol pop3         #list request address
>         username mailinglist2requestuid with
>         password secretword, is mailman here;
> poll pop.MyMXDomain.com protocol pop3         #list admin address
>         username mailinglist2adminuid with
>         password secretword, is mailman here;
> 
> # mailinglist3 mailing list
> poll pop.MyMXDomain.com protocol pop3
>         username mailinglist3uid with         #list address
>         password secretword, is mailman here;
> poll pop.MyMXDomain.com protocol pop3         #list request address
>         username mailinglist3requestuid with
>         password secretword, is mailman here;
> poll pop.MyMXDomain.com protocol pop3         #list admin address
>         username mailinglist3adminuid with
>         password secretword, is mailman here;
> ----
> 
> When I sent a mail from a member's email account to one of the lists he
> is one, it never makes it to the list.  I can see that fetchmail has
> grabbed it and given it to mailman, though, because looking in
> /usr/local/mailman/logs/vette shows me an error every time I send a
> message to the list to the effect of this:
> 
> Feb 08 15:28:32 2004 (1071) Mailman post from MyAddress at MyDomain.com held, message-id=<1076272100.1694.34.camel at LocalHost.LocalDomain>: Post by non-member to a members-only list
> 
> Rechecking things, I have verified that the address in quesiton is a
> member of the list.  Any idea why it would treat a member as a
> non-member under the setup I've described?
> 
> Secondly, as this if the first time I've done this, it would be nice to
> get some feedback on the fetchmailrc file I detailed above.  Is this
> what it's supposed to look like when I have multiple lists running on
> this box?  Do I need the create a new user for each list or will the "is
> mailman here" be interpreted and handled by mailman properly?
> 
> Being a complete newbie wrt mailinglists, any help at all will be most
> appreciated.
> 

I'm trying to do something similar (I'm using Exim4 instead of
Postfix).  I don't have everything working yet, but it appears that
with POP the pipe commands to run the messages through mailman need to
be in ~/.procmailrc rather than /etc/aliases (on my system fetchmail
hands off to Exim which delivers via procmail).  I noticed that if I do
that, messages get sent out, but copies to the user who owns the
.procmailrc file don't get delivered, since when they come back they
will be piped again (although they don't get sent out again,
thankfully).  I will be contacting my ISP tomorrow to set up a separate
email address just for use by the list and I suspect that will work.

hth,

Bob Nielsen