[Mailman-Users] multiple domains - mailman-bounces at subdomain.example.com not

[Mark Sapiro]

On 2/4/19 2:46 AM, Konrad Wawryn wrote:
> 
> In our Mailman configuration we are using two sender domains:
> 
> example.com
> subdomain.example.com
> 
> 
> In the file /etc/mailman/virtual-mailman    I have found only this
> addresses
> 
> # STANZA START: mailman
> # CREATED: Thu Jun 22 10:43:16 2017
> mailman at example.com              mailman
> mailman-admin at example.com        mailman-admin
> mailman-bounces at example.com      mailman-bounces
> mailman-confirm at example.com      mailman-confirm
> mailman-join at example.com         mailman-join
> mailman-leave at example.com        mailman-leave
> mailman-owner at example.com        mailman-owner
> mailman-request at example.com      mailman-request
> mailman-subscribe at example.com    mailman-subscribe
> mailman-unsubscribe at example.com  mailman-unsubscribe
> 
> 
> 
> but there are no entries for subdomain.example.com.


Mailman 2.1 does not support two lists with the same listname. This you
cannot configure Mailman as distributed to generate virtual mappings for
both domains.


> I would like to understand how its working with multiple domains. Does
> mailman and mailman-*@* addresses are reserverd only for root domain ?
> What about subdomain ?
> 
> Do I have to create separate entry like this one to resolve my e-mail
> loop issue ?
> 
> mailman at subdomain.example.com              mailman
> mailman-admin at subdomain.example.com        mailman-admin
> mailman-bounces at subdomain.example.com      mailman-bounces
> mailman-confirm at subdomain.example.com      mailman-confirm
> mailman-join at subdomain.example.com         mailman-join
> mailman-leave at subdomain.example.com        mailman-leave
> mailman-owner at subdomain.example.com        mailman-owner
> mailman-request at subdomain.example.com      mailman-request
> mailman-subscribe at subdomain.example.com    mailman-subscribe
> mailman-unsubscribe at subdomain.example.com  mailman-unsubscribe


Yes. It is possible to patch Mailman/MTA/Postfix.py to write those
mappings as well. Here in context is a patch I use to create mappings
for the grizzlypeakcyclists.org domain as well as grizz.org.

>     # Now add all the standard alias entries
>     for k, v in makealiases(listname):
>         fqdnaddr = '%s@%s' % (k, hostname)
>         if mm_cfg.VIRTUAL_MAILMAN_LOCAL_DOMAIN:
>             localaddr = '%s@%s' % (k, mm_cfg.VIRTUAL_MAILMAN_LOCAL_DOMAIN)
>         else:
>             localaddr = k
>         # Format the text file nicely
>         print >> fp, fqdnaddr, ((fieldsz - len(k)) * ' '), localaddr
>     # Major Kludge alert!
>     if hostname == 'grizz.org':
>         for k, v in makealiases(listname):
>             fqdnaddr = '%s@%s' % (k, 'grizzlypeakcyclists.org')
>             if mm_cfg.VIRTUAL_MAILMAN_LOCAL_DOMAIN:
>                 localaddr = '%s@%s' % (k, mm_cfg.VIRTUAL_MAILMAN_LOCAL_DOMAIN)
>             else:
>                 localaddr = k
>             # Format the text file nicely
>             print >> fp, fqdnaddr, ((fieldsz - len(k)) * ' '), localaddr
>     # Finish the text file stanza


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