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- <h1>HOWTO - Using exim and mailman together</h1>
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+ <h1>Exim and Mailman HOWTO</h1>
- <p>Mailman is a list manager with web front end and built in
- archiving functions. Details can be found at <a href="http://www.list.org/">http://www.list.org/</a></p>
+ <p><a href="http://www.list.org/">Mailman</a> is a Mailing List
+ Manager (MLM). There are 2 sets of documents on integration of
+ Mailman with exim:-</p>
- <h2>Mailman configuration</h2>
+ <ul>
- <p>There is no mailman configuration needed other than the
- standard options detailed in the mailman install documentation.
- The exim configuration is transparent to mailman. The uid/gid
- settings for mailman must match those in the config fragments
- given below.</p>
+ <li>The <a href="mailman21.html">current document</a> which
+ covers Mailman version 2.1 and Exim version 4 - this should be
+ used for all new installations, since older versions of both
+ sets of software are now obsolete.</li>
- <h2>Exim configuration</h2>
+ <li>The <a href="mailman20.html">old document</a> covering
+ Mailman 2.0 and Exim 3</li>
- <p>The exim configuration is built so that a list created within
- mailman automagically appears to exim without the need for
- additional alias files etc to be changed.</p>
-
- <p>The drawback of this configuration is that it will work poorly
- on systems supporting lists in several different mail domains -
- for that matter mailman itself has poor support for this right
- now. This may change in the future</p>
-
- <p>The configuration file segments included are to be built on top
- of an already functional exim configuration, which accepts mail
- for the domain which the list resides in (ie that domain is
- already in <tt>local_domains</tt> - should this domain be separate
- from the others handled by this exim, then add the list domain to
- <tt>local_domains</tt>, add a <tt>domains=my.list.domain</tt>
- option to each of the directors and you may wish to exclude that
- domain from the other directors.</p>
-
- <p>Your exim configuration also needs a working alias
- configuration, with entries (within the list domain) for
- <tt>mailman</tt>, <tt>mailman-request</tt> and
- <tt>mailman-admin</tt> (plus any other global contact addresses
- for the list master.</p>
-
- <p>There are 3 config file sections below which need pasting into
- the appropriate parts of the main exim config file. The first one
- may also need tailoring to your mailman configuration</p>
-
- <h4>Main config file section</h4>
-<pre>
-## Top section of config file - macro definitions
-## Tailor these to fit your installation
-## pretty much everything else should just fit...
-##
-# home dir for mailman
-MAILMAN_HOME=/home/mailman
-# wrapper script for mailman
-MAILMAN_WRAP=MAILMAN_HOME/mail/wrapper
-# user and group for mailman
-MAILMAN_UID=exim
-MAILMAN_GID=exim
-</pre>
- <h4>Transports config file section</h4>
-<pre>
-## Transports section
-##
-## Three transports for list mail, request mail and admin mail
-## respectively
-## Mailman is installed in MAILMAN_HOME
-## Mailman is configured to be invoked as user exim
-list_transport:
- driver = pipe
- command = MAILMAN_WRAP post ${lc:$local_part}
- current_directory = MAILMAN_HOME
- home_directory = MAILMAN_HOME
- user = MAILMAN_UID
- group = MAILMAN_GID
-
-list_request_transport:
- driver = pipe
- command = MAILMAN_WRAP mailcmd ${lc:$local_part}
- current_directory = MAILMAN_HOME
- home_directory = MAILMAN_HOME
- user = MAILMAN_UID
- group = MAILMAN_GID
-
-list_admin_transport:
- driver = pipe
- command = MAILMAN_WRAP mailowner ${lc:$local_part}
- current_directory = MAILMAN_HOME
- home_directory = MAILMAN_HOME
- user = MAILMAN_UID
- group = MAILMAN_GID
-
-### end of transports section fragment
-</pre>
- <h4>Directors config file section</h4>
-<pre>
-## Directors section [this deals with local addresses]
-##
-## First 2 directors rewrite list-owner or owner-list to list-admin
-## This is only done if the list exists.
-## List existence checks are done by seeing if the file
-## MAILMAN_HOME/lists/<list>/config.db
-## exists.
-
-list_owner_director:
- driver = smartuser
- require_files = MAILMAN_HOME/lists/${lc:$local_part}/config.db
- suffix = "-owner"
- new_address = "${lc:$local_part}-admin@${domain}"
-
-owner_list_director:
- driver = smartuser
- require_files = MAILMAN_HOME/lists/${lc:$local_part}/config.db
- prefix = "owner-"
- new_address = "${lc:$local_part}-admin@${domain}"
-
-##
-## Next 3 directors direct admin, request and list mail to the appropriate
-## transport. List existence is checked as above.
-
-list_admin_director:
- driver = smartuser
- suffix = -admin
- require_files = MAILMAN_HOME/lists/${lc:$local_part}/config.db
- transport = list_admin_transport
-
-list_request_director:
- driver = smartuser
- suffix = -request
- require_files = MAILMAN_HOME/lists/${lc:$local_part}/config.db
- transport = list_request_transport
-
-list_director:
- driver = smartuser
- require_files = MAILMAN_HOME/lists/${lc:$local_part}/config.db
- transport = list_transport
-
-## End of directors fragment
-## End of config files bits
-</pre>
-
-<p>Exim should be configured to allow reasonable volume - ie no
-setting <tt>max_recipients</tt> down to a silly value, and with normal
-degrees of security - ie allowing relaying from <tt>127.0.0.1</tt>
-(thats vital), but pretty much nothing else. Parallel deliveries and
-other tweaks can also be used. Delay warning messages should be
-switched off or configured to only happen for non-list mail - unless
-you like receiving tons of mail when a host is down.</p>
-
-<h3>Problems</h3>
-<ul>
-
- <li>Mailman's detection of exim bounces needs improving - it really
- should make use of the extra header information that exim provides.
- It also should recognise and deal with or ignore delay warning
- messages.</li>
-
- <li>List existence is checked on whether there is a config.db file
- for a list. If you delete lists by foul means, be aware of
- this.</li>
-</ul>
-
- <h2>Other Tweaks</h2>
-
- <p>One solution passed to me for handling virtual domains was -
- <i>Since I use mailman in a virtual domain configuration with a
- separate installation for each virtual domain, I did a slight
- modification like this:</i></p>
-
-<pre>
-## transport configurations
-
-command = "/virtual/${domain}/mailman/mail/wrapper post ${lc:$local_part}"
-current_directory = /virtual/${domain}/mailman
-home_directory = /virtual/${domain}/mailman
-
-## and in the director part:
-
-require_files = /virtual/${domain}/mailman/lists/${lc:$local_part}/config.db
-
-</pre>
+ </ul>
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- <address><a href="mailto:Postmaster@exim.org">Nigel Metheringham</a></address>
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