[Mailman-Users] Postfix & Mailman not playing well together

[Michael Soh]

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net> wrote:

> This is documented in Defaults.py in the paragraphs immediately
> preceding the definitions of DEFAULT_URL_HOST and DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST.
>

I was just following the directions on the website, specifically:
http://www.list.org/mailman-install/postfix-virtual.html


> >add_virtualhost(DEFAULT_URL_HOST, DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST)
> >
> >I'm assuming then I'll have to add the following lines:
> >add_virtualhost(DEFAULT_URL_HOST, 'mikesoh.com')
> >add_virtualhost(DEFAULT_URL_HOST, 'linuslive.com')
>
>
> No. The url hosts in add_virtualhost directives must be unique.
> Otherwise each just replaces the prior one.
>
> If you aren't going to create lists via the web and are going to create
> all lists via bin/newlist with the same (default) url host and the -e
> option for specifying email host (or setting the email host via the
> list's host_name in the web admin GUI). You don't need add_virtualhost
> directives.
>

This is what I would like to do.  I'm a command-line person myself.  And
since I'd have to run postfix reload after creating the aliases anyway, it
makes more sense for me to run it via command-line.


> If you have multiple web domains and want to keep them separate, you
> need add_virtualhost('web_host_for_this_email_domain', 'email_domain')
> for each domain.
>

I didn't put in add_virtualhost() in the Defaults.py or mm_cfg.py and still
having mail bouncing saying that the alias couldn't be found.

If worse comes to worse, I can just host all of my mailman lists on the
lists.mikesoh.com subdomain but would like to be able to use all of my
domains to create mailing lists.