[Mailman-Users] Same list name, different domains...

[Mark Sapiro]

Sean Butler wrote:
> 
> I need to setup board at eagles.com and board at hrca.org, both of which  
> are running as virtual domains...  I'm running debian and postfix.
> 
> In /var/lib/mailman/data directory, I end up with two files:
> 
> aliases
> virtual-mailman
> 
> 
> In the aliases file, the original board at eagles looks like this:
> 
> # STANZA START: board
> # CREATED: Wed Jan 16 13:30:03 2008
> board:             "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post board"
> board-admin:       "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman admin board"
> board-bounces:     "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman bounces board"
> ...
> 
> And the new board at hrca looks like this:
> 
> # STANZA START: hrca_board
> # CREATED: Wed Jan 16 13:30:03 2008
> hrca_board:             "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post hrca_board"
> hrca_board-admin:       "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman admin  
> hrca_board"
> hrca_board-bounces:     "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman bounces  
> hrca_board"
> ...
> 
> 
> In the virtual mailman file, the original board at eagles looks likes this:
> 
> # STANZA START: board
> # CREATED: Wed Jan 16 13:30:03 2008
> board at eagles.com      		        board
> board-admin at eagles.com        		board-admin
> board-bounces at eagles.com		board-bounces
> ...
> 
> # STANZA START: hrca_board
> # CREATED: Wed Jan 16 13:30:03 2008
> hrca_board at hrca.org     	        hrca_board
> hrca_board-admin at hrca.org       	hrca_board-admin
> hrca_board-bounces at hrca.org      	hrca_board-bounces
> ...


The above aliases and virtual-mailman entries look like what you need to
have two lists named respectively 'board' and 'hrca_board' as far as
Mailman is concerned internally and to access these lists via emails as
board at eagles.com, etc. and board at hrca.org, etc. respectively.

Did you run postalias and postmap to update the .db files after making
the above entries.


>  From the instructions in the thread I found, I thought I should just  
> modify the hrca_board at hrca.org to be board at hrca.org in the virtual  
> mailman file (and all the other ones like -admin, etc.), but that  
> doesn't seem to do it...


It should as long as you run postmap after making the mods.

You will also want to set board at hrca.org in acceptable_aliases for the
hrca_board list, and possibly other changes?

In what respect does it not do it? What happens when you mail
board at hrca.org?


> Also, if I run genaliases, then everything changes back to the  
> original state anyway.


Right. This will be a problem, but once you get it set up, you shouldn't
need to run genaliases, as list creation and deletion should keep things
in sync.

> Am I missing something???


It looks OK to me as long as you are running postmap after manually
updating virtual-mailman.


> As additional info, I have postfix set up with:
> 
> virtual_maps =  hash:/etc/postfix/db/virtual,
>                  hash:/var/lib/mailman/data/virtual-mailman
> alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases,
>               hash:/var/lib/mailman/data/aliases


Looks good.

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