[Mailman-Users] Pain, seeking Mailman/Postfix wisdom

[Mark Sapiro]

John Jackson 
>
>  Solaris 10
>  Postfix 2.4.6
>  Mailman 2.1.12rc2
>  Python 2.4.4
>  postfix-to-mailman-2.1.py


Don't use postfix-to-mailman-2.1.py. There is no need, and it just
makes your situation more complex.


>I have: (2) domain names for the same host, of the form:
>
>   namexxx.department.domain.tld (has an A and MX record)
>   nameyyy.department.domain.tld (has a CNAME and MX record)
>
>What I originally hoped for was to host some Mailman lists on my server 
>and still have a handful of user accounts on the server be able to receive 
>email directly.  Both the lists and the local users would have the same 
>email address after the @, like so:
>
>      listone at namexxx.department.domain.tld
>      listtwo at namexxx.department.domain.tld
>
>      userone at namexxx.department.domain.tld
>      usertwo at namexxx.department.domain.tld


No problem.


<snip>


The whole point of postfix_to_mailman is to avoid requiring aliases,
but this doesn't work if you have both lists and local users in the
same domain. Mailman has a pretty good facility for automatically
maintaining list aliases for Postfix. See
<http://www.list.org/mailman-install/node13.html> for how to set it
up. That's all you need to do.

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