AW: [Mailman-Users] Unable to get Mailman up and running with qmail/vpopmail

[DIGITAL FOR YOU - Alexander Schwethelm]

I really tried a lot until now and I have read README.QMAIL numerous times.
I agree that everything looks like an alias problem, but if I want to solve
this ever, I have to start investigating.

I ran the script mentioned in the README.QMAIL file.  To clarify where
should those aliases be created?  In "/path/to/mailman" or in
"/path/to/vpopmail/domains" ;-)

Also isn't there a way to handle all this without aliases.  The tutorials I
read didn't work with aliases, but added "|/usr/bin/python
/var/mailman/qmail-to-mailman.py" to .qmail-default.  This .qmail-default is
supposed to reside in the mailman folder, but I also tried to put this in
the apropriate vpopmail folder.  I've added the lists.domain.tld, using
vqadmin.

My problem might be that I don't know for sure how all this works
internally.  That's what I believe and please correct me as this might lead
me the right direction...

1. I am sending a mail to "example at lists.domain.tld"
2. Qmail/vpopmail know the domain "lists.domain.tld" and take care of it
3. The user "example" is not known at "lists.domain.tld" so see what's in
.qmail-default
4. From there the file qmail-to-mailman.py is called using python
5. Mailman should handle everything from there

...but, that's not how it works.  

Could this also be a rights problem?  In one tutorial I read to compile
mailman with "--with-mail-gid=mailman", in the oter I read to compile it
with "--with-mail-gid=vchkpw" (the group used by qmail/vpopmail). What is
the correct way and how does this influence the process.

Sorry, I know a lot of questions and I would like to say thank you in
advance for any support given :-)

Best regards,

Alex



-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Brad Knowles [mailto:brad at stop.mail-abuse.org] 
Gesendet: Sonntag, 21. November 2004 01:57
An: DIGITAL FOR YOU - Alexander Schwethelm
Cc: mailman-users at python.org
Betreff: Re: [Mailman-Users] Unable to get Mailman up and running with
qmail/vpopmail


At 5:16 PM +0100 2004-11-20, DIGITAL FOR YOU - Alexander Schwethelm wrote:

>  What doesn't work and this is of course the most important part, is 
> any mail  to mailman.  Let's say I have a list 
> mylist at lists.mydomain.tld and I send an  email to this address as a 
> list user, the mail gets stuck in the qmail  queue.

	This sounds like a problem with the aliases definitions on the MTA.

	Personally, I had never heard of either of the URLs you 
mentioned.  With regards to getting Mailman to work with qmail, the 
best reference I know of is found within the Mailman tarball, in the 
README.QMAIL file.

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