Rich wrote: > >After about 4 hours fiddling I'd managed to find a fix. I think the main >thing I was missing was that you have to run genaliases in order to >update the lookup file.
The reason you needed to run genaliases is that you created the list before adding its domain to POSTFIX_STYLE_VIRTUAL_DOMAINS. Had you added the domain to POSTFIX_STYLE_VIRTUAL_DOMAINS before creating the list, you wouldn't have needed to run genaliases. >I had read http://www.exim.org/howto/mailman21.html but not found it >particularly enlightening, esp. the exim section. If your exim router were configured as this howto suggests, you could have MTA = None in mm_cfg.py, and you wouldn't need virtual-mailman (or POSTFIX_STYLE_VIRTUAL_DOMAINS), and new lists would just work. >I had read a lot more, >too. Just search this list for "virutal domain" and you'll see how many >others have problems too, and I read through lots of those! > >In the end I found /usr/share/doc/mailman/README.Exim4.Debian.gz which >was most helpful. > >For the benefit of anyone reading this, I have learnt: > >1. in mm_config, it says postfix but it means exim too. Unfortunate >lexical obfuscation ;-) Only because you are apparently doing things the Debian way instead of the recommended way. >2. virtual domains look like quite a hassle with postfix, but with exim >they're easy as long as your lists all have unique names, regardless of >their domain (or you have to run 2 installs of mm) And you are configuring Exim so that you need to do all the Postfix hassle which is unnecessary if you do it the recommended way. >3. running genaliases is needed to update existing lists. If you are relying on MTA = 'Postfix' and POSTFIX_STYLE_VIRTUAL_DOMAINS and you create the list before updating POSTFIX_STYLE_VIRTUAL_DOMAINS, this is correct. >4. beyond the instructions in README.Exim4.Debian I added a line > add_virtualhost('my.virt.host.com','my.virt.host.com') > for each virtualhost. I'm not sure this is needed once it's listed >in POSTFIX_STYLE_VIRTUAL_DOMAINS > but I'm not going to try to break it now I've finally got it working! add_virtualhost directives have nothing directly to do with virtual-mailman. They provide a Python dictionary mapping from 'web host' to 'email host'. This is used to determine the email domain for a created list when creating it from the web or via newlist without specifying an email host. Also see the FAQ at <http://wiki.list.org/x/lYA9>. -- Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
