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- <h1>HOWTO - Using exim and mailman together</h1>
+ <h1>HOWTO - Using exim and Mailman together</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>
<h2>Mailman configuration</h2>
- <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
+ <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>
<h2>Exim configuration</h2>
<p>The exim configuration is built so that a list created within
- mailman automagically appears to exim without the need for
+ 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
+ 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
<tt>mailman-admin</tt> (plus any other global contact addresses
for the list master). These addresses point to a (or some - not
necessarily the same for all of these aliases) human rather than
- being piped into mailman. You do <b>not</b> need to put per-list
+ being piped into Mailman. You do <b>not</b> need to put per-list
entries into the system alias file, and doing so will most likely
break things since the user id used for delivery is likely to be
incorrect or not set (which causes an exim delivery time config
<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>
+ may also need tailoring to your Mailman configuration</p>
<h4>Main config file section</h4>
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## Tailor these to fit your installation
## pretty much everything else should just fit...
##
-# home dir for mailman
+# home dir for Mailman
MAILMAN_HOME=/home/mailman
# wrapper script for mailman
MAILMAN_WRAP=MAILMAN_HOME/mail/wrapper
-# user and group for mailman
+# user and group for Mailman
MAILMAN_UID=exim
MAILMAN_GID=exim
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for a list. If you delete lists by foul means, be aware of
this.</li>
- <li>If you are getting exim or mailman complaining about user ids
+ <li>If you are getting exim or Mailman complaining about user ids
when you send mail to a list, check that the MAILMAN_UID and
- MAILMAN_GID match those of mailman itself. Also make sure you do
+ MAILMAN_GID match those of Mailman itself. Also make sure you do
<b>not</b> have aliases in the main alias file for the list.</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
+ <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>
##delay_warning_condition = "${if match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk}{no}{yes}}"
#
# Verify receipient addresses on everything except local injects
-# DO NOT verify addresses from mailman - this would slow down
+# DO NOT verify addresses from Mailman - this would slow down
# the acceptance of messages dramatically
receiver_verify_hosts = !127.0.0.1/8:0.0.0.0/0
sender_verify
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<address><a href="mailto:Postmaster@exim.org">Nigel Metheringham</a></address>
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