Mailman is a list manager with web front end and built in - archiving functions. Details can be found at http://www.list.org/
+Mailman is a Mailing List + Manager (MLM). There are 2 sets of documents on integration of + Mailman with exim:-
-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 - 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 - now. This may change in the future
- -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 local_domains - should this domain be separate - from the others handled by this exim, then add the list domain to - local_domains, add a domains=my.list.domain - option to each of the directors and you may wish to exclude that - domain from the other directors.
- -Your exim configuration also needs a working alias - configuration, with entries (within the list domain) for - mailman, mailman-request and - mailman-admin (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 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
- --## 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 --
-## 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
-
- -## 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/- -/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 -
Exim should be configured to allow reasonable volume - ie no -setting max_recipients down to a silly value, and with normal -degrees of security - ie allowing relaying from 127.0.0.1 -(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.
- -One solution passed to me for handling virtual domains was - - Since I use Mailman in a virtual domain configuration with a - separate installation for each virtual domain, I did a slight - modification like this:
- -
-## 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:$local_part}/config.db
-
-
-
- This is a set of configuration directives I used on the list - boxes I admin. Some of these are necessary, others are cosmetic, - a few are probably superfluous - they work for me!
-
-# definition of injecting IP addresses
-LOCAL_NETS=127.0.0.1/32
-#
-# Extra logging data - not necessary but makes the logs more
-# useful, but bigger
-# lookup all hostnames - puts hostnames into log as well as ips
-host_lookup = 0.0.0.0/0
-# tweak logging
-log_all_parents
-log_file_path = /var/log/exim/%s.log
-log_received_recipients
-log_refused_recipients
-log_received_sender
-log_smtp_confirmation
-#
-# RBL settings - these are more severe than I use
-rbl_domains = rbl.maps.vix.com/reject:relays.mail-abuse.org/reject:dul.maps.vix.com/reject:relays.orbs.org=127.0.0.2,127.0.0.3/reject
-rbl_hosts = !LOCAL_NETS:0.0.0.0/0
-rbl_log_rcpt_count
-recipients_reject_except=postmaster@*:*-admin@*
-#
-# relay control - from our local network only
-host_accept_relay = LOCAL_NETS
-#
-# delay warnings - second line is now default, but earlier versions of
-# exim need it setting
-delay_warning = 26h
-##delay_warning_condition = "${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
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- Nigel Metheringham
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+Last modified: Wed Jun 9 12:36:34 BST 2004
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