Ed, This works great! Thank you very much!!! I tried David Champion's mm-handler method and it was too complicated (for a non-experienced sendmail person, like me) so I couldn't get it to work. Your procedure is simple and easy to implement! Thanks again for sharing your method! I recommend it to anyone wanting to integrate sendmail to mailman.
Regards, Barbara ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- I've worked this up. I'd appreciate some constructive comments, yea or nay, on this procedure. Using the postfix MTA functionality to do automatic sendmail alias handling ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- In order to add a list to mailman on a sendmail based system, you need To add a bunch of aliases for that list to the alias file. In this customization, we implement a second alias file and teach sendmail about it. We use a mailman feature that was designed for the postfix mail program - a replacement for sendmail. This feature creates /home/mailman/data/aliases 1. We have a script that will copy the alias file and then process it. We need to do this since sendmail doesn't like alias files to be in directories that don't meet very specific permission requirements. /home/mailman/data doesn't meet this requirement. Our script will copy the alias file from /home/mailman/data to /etc. It uses a different name in order not to clash with the existing /etc/aliases Create /usr/local/sbin/mailman.aliases with these commands: /bin/cp /home/mailman/data/aliases /etc/mailman.aliases /usr/bin/newaliases 2. We have to tell mailman that it is using postfix. We lie. Add these to mm_cfg.py: MTA='Postfix' POSTFIX_ALIAS_CMD = '/usr/bin/sudo /usr/local/sbin/mailman.aliases' POSTFIX_STYLE_VIRTUAL_DOMAINS = [] 3. We have to tell sendmail about the new alias file. in /etc/mail/sendmail.mc find this line: define(`ALIAS_FILE', `/etc/aliases')dnl and change it to: define(`ALIAS_FILE', `/etc/aliases,/etc/mailman.aliases')dnl Run a make (or otherwise refresh sendmail.cf and then restart sendmail Now when we run newaliases, it will rebuild both alias files. 4. We need permission for apache and mailman to run our script from step 1. In the /etc/sudoers file (use the command /usr/sbin/visudo) we need two lines: apache ALL= NOPASSWD: /usr/local/sbin/mailman.aliases mailman ALL= NOPASSWD: /usr/local/sbin/mailman.aliases Note that your web server may not run as 'apache' It may run as 'www' or 'nobody'. Whatever it runs as is what you need where it says apache. 5. As mailman, run /home/mailman/bin/genaliases Check for a file /home/mailman/data/aliases and also TWO files /etc/mailman.aliases and /etc/mailman.aliases.db 6. Test creating a list using /home/mailman/bin/newlist Check for the appearance of aliases for that list in /etc/mailman.aliases Add some users and test the list 7. Test for creating a list using http://domain.com/mailman/create Check for the appearance of aliases for that list in /etc/mailman.aliases Add some users and test the list Ed Greenberg edg at greenberg.org 6/19/2004 ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users at python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/
