>Hi,
>
>I was wondering whether anyone has managed to get XMail and Mailman to work
>together, and if so, how did you configure the mailman list-control aliases
>in XMail? I've tried setting up piped commands in aliases.tab and also
>under cmdaliases, but I haven't found a way to make it work, and this is one
>of those rare instances when Google doesn't seem to be of much assistance.
>
>If nobody has managed to do it yet, I'll give it up and try something else.
>That would be a shame, because so far I'm very impressed with both packages.
>I just wish I could get them to talk to each other!
I have gotten it to work. There are a few steps involved in making this work.
First, you should create a cmdalias in the domain for each of the
mailboxes that mailman expects. An example with domain =
lists.domain.com and list name=list, you'd create the following
cmdalias files in /var/MailRoot/cmdaliases:
list-admin.tab list-confirm.tab list-leave.tab list-request.tab
list.tab
list-bounces.tab list-join.tab list-owner.tab
list-subscribe.tab list-unsubscribe.tab
Each file has the following line in it:
"external"[tab]"0"[tab]"0"[tab]"/var/MailRoot/bin/mailman.sh"[tab]"@@RCPT"[tab]"@@TMPFILE"
Then you put the following file, mailman.sh, in your
/var/MailRoot/bin folder. You'll also need the econv package
available on the xmailserver.org web page, under the tools section:
##### START mailman.sh #######
#! /bin/bash
#
# This script takes an incoming list for a mailing list and parses
the email address
# to determine the correct list for sending to Mailman's wrapper program
MAIL_ROOT=/var/MailRoot
# Arguments
list_email=$1
messagefile=$2
# First, isolate the list address (i.e. list-owner, list-subscribe, etc.)
list_address=`echo "$list_email" | sed 's/@.*//g'`
# Next, isolate the list name
list_name=`echo "$list_address" | sed 's/-.*//g'`
# Isolate the list user (i.e. owner, admin, subscribe, etc.)
list_user=`echo "$list_address" | sed 's/.*-//g'`
# If the list user is the same as the list name, this means this is
the address for the list
# itself, so the list user should be set to post
if [ $list_name == $list_user ] ; then
list_user=post
fi
# Convert the Xmail mail file into an email file
tmpfile=/home/xmail/$RANDOM.conv
econv --unix --input $messagefile --output $tmpfile
# Pipe the email file to the Mailman wrapper for the correct list and user
cat $tmpfile | /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman $list_user
$list_name >& /home/xmail/error.log
rm $tmpfile
logfile=$MAIL_ROOT/logs/mailinglists.log
logentry=`date`
logentry="$logentry : $list_email"
echo $logentry >> $logfile
###### END mailman.sh #######
Granted, this file is not the most efficient way to do this. Also,
there is a major flaw with the script, as it currently does not allow
list names with a dash in them (this is actually a very common
practice). If someone has something better to offer, please do (and
post it to the list)!
I've also create a semi-automated script that creates a list in
mailman and also creates each of the necessary cmdalias files.
Contact me off list to get this code, as it's more involved.
Good luck!
Toby
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