[Mailman-Users] exim says 'unrouteable' on new list [SOLVED]

[Rich Lott]

Thanks for patient explanations.

I've changed my config to the Mailman Official Way, because it seems 
slightly cleaner than Debian's  (only have to edit exim config to add a 
new sub domain). Seems to be working...

Many thanks,

Rich.


On 08/08/11 07:44, Mark Sapiro wrote:

> Rich wrote:
>> After about 4 hours fiddling I'd managed to find a fix. I think the main
>> thing I was missing was that you have to run genaliases in order to
>> update the lookup file.
>
> The reason you needed to run genaliases is that you created the list
> before adding its domain to POSTFIX_STYLE_VIRTUAL_DOMAINS. Had you
> added the domain to POSTFIX_STYLE_VIRTUAL_DOMAINS before creating the
> list, you wouldn't have needed to run genaliases.
>
>
>> I had read http://www.exim.org/howto/mailman21.html but not found it
>> particularly enlightening, esp. the exim section.
>
> If your exim router were configured as this howto suggests, you could
> have MTA = None in mm_cfg.py, and you wouldn't need virtual-mailman
> (or POSTFIX_STYLE_VIRTUAL_DOMAINS), and new lists would just work.
>
>
>> I had read a lot more,
>> too. Just search this list for "virutal domain" and you'll see how many
>> others have problems too, and I read through lots of those!
>>
>> In the end I found /usr/share/doc/mailman/README.Exim4.Debian.gz which
>> was most helpful.
>>
>> For the benefit of anyone reading this, I have learnt:
>>
>> 1. in mm_config, it says postfix but it means exim too. Unfortunate
>> lexical obfuscation ;-)
>
> Only because you are apparently doing things the Debian way instead of
> the recommended way.
>
>
>> 2. virtual domains look like quite a hassle with postfix, but with exim
>> they're easy as long as your lists all have unique names, regardless of
>> their domain (or you have to run 2 installs of mm)
>
> And you are configuring Exim so that you need to do all the Postfix
> hassle which is unnecessary if you do it the recommended way.
>
>
>> 3. running genaliases is needed to update existing lists.
>
> If you are relying on MTA = 'Postfix' and POSTFIX_STYLE_VIRTUAL_DOMAINS
> and you create the list before updating POSTFIX_STYLE_VIRTUAL_DOMAINS,
> this is correct.
>
>
>> 4. beyond the instructions in README.Exim4.Debian I added a line
>>      add_virtualhost('my.virt.host.com','my.virt.host.com')
>>      for each virtualhost. I'm not sure this is needed once it's listed
>> in POSTFIX_STYLE_VIRTUAL_DOMAINS
>>      but I'm not going to try to break it now I've finally got it working!
>
> add_virtualhost directives have nothing directly to do with
> virtual-mailman. They provide a Python dictionary mapping from 'web
> host' to 'email host'. This is used to determine the email domain for
> a created list when creating it from the web or via newlist without
> specifying an email host. Also see the FAQ at
> <http://wiki.list.org/x/lYA9>.
>