Mailman is a list manager with web front end and built in archiving functions. Details can be found at http://www.list.org/
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 +
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.
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.
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
The configuration file segments included are to be built on top @@ -42,11 +42,17 @@ configuration, with entries (within the list domain) for mailman, mailman-request and mailman-admin (plus any other global contact addresses - for the list master.
+ 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 not 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 + error).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
+ may also need tailoring to your Mailman configuration@@ -54,11 +60,11 @@ ## 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@@ -157,17 +163,23 @@ you like receiving tons of mail when a host is down.
One solution passed to me for handling virtual domains was - - Since I use mailman in a virtual domain configuration with a + Since I use Mailman in a virtual domain configuration with a separate installation for each virtual domain, I did a slight modification like this:
@@ -184,9 +196,75 @@ require_files = /virtual/${domain}/mailman/lists/${lc:$local_part}/config.db +This is a set of configuration directives I used on the list + boxes I admin. Some of these are necessary, others are cosmetic, + a few are probably superfluous - they work for me!
+
+# definition of injecting IP addresses
+LOCAL_NETS=127.0.0.1/32
+#
+# Extra logging data - not necessary but makes the logs more
+# useful, but bigger
+# lookup all hostnames - puts hostnames into log as well as ips
+host_lookup = 0.0.0.0/0
+# tweak logging
+log_all_parents
+log_file_path = /var/log/exim/%s.log
+log_received_recipients
+log_refused_recipients
+log_received_sender
+log_smtp_confirmation
+#
+# RBL settings - these are more severe than I use
+rbl_domains = rbl.maps.vix.com/reject:relays.mail-abuse.org/reject:dul.maps.vix.com/reject:relays.orbs.org=127.0.0.2,127.0.0.3/reject
+rbl_hosts = !LOCAL_NETS:0.0.0.0/0
+rbl_log_rcpt_count
+recipients_reject_except=postmaster@*:*-admin@*
+#
+# relay control - from our local network only
+host_accept_relay = LOCAL_NETS
+#
+# delay warnings - second line is now default, but earlier versions of
+# exim need it setting
+delay_warning = 26h
+##delay_warning_condition = "${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
+# the acceptance of messages dramatically
+receiver_verify_hosts = !127.0.0.1/8:0.0.0.0/0
+sender_verify
+#
+# performance tweaks - 1st is good for linux, maybe less so for others
+split_spool_directory
+remote_max_parallel = 15
+
+
+This is how a set of address tests for the exim lists look on a +working system. (command lines start with ">")
+
+> /usr/sbin/exim -v -bt exim-users
+exim-users@www.exim.org
+ deliver to exim-users in domain www.exim.org
+ director = list_director, transport = list_transport
+
+> /usr/sbin/exim -bt exim-users-request
+exim-users-request@www.exim.org
+ deliver to exim-users in domain www.exim.org
+ director = list_request_director, transport = list_request_transport
+
+> /usr/sbin/exim -bt exim-users-admin
+exim-users-admin@www.exim.org
+ deliver to exim-users in domain www.exim.org
+ director = list_admin_director, transport = list_admin_transport
+
Nigel Metheringham
- $Id: mailman.html,v 1.6 2000/04/09 22:02:34 nigel Exp $
+ $Id: mailman.html,v 1.2 2000/05/30 19:59:57 nigel Exp $