I wanted to post this to the developer list and see if there have been any previous thoughts on my situation and also if there are related features being developed for 3.0 (if so, there's probably no point in patching 2.x).
Anyway, my postfix configuration, although probably not rare, seems to be different that many. In my case, all of my domains are "virtual". I have real unix users, and in order to have the same email account name in different domains, I make a user with "name-domain". In my postfix virtual file, I map "name@domain" to name-domain, however, since I do not want to pick one of my actual domains as the default destination, I set $mydestination to "localhost", requiring me to map "name@domain" to "name-domain@localhost". The benefit is that there is no domain to which "name-domain@domain" would work (I do not want this to work as a side effect).
Sorry for the long description!! :) Anyway, give the above, without modifying MTA/Postfix.py (and it's a trivial mod, I know), there is no way to make Mailman's automatic postfix alias stuff completely work. I now have my own auto-generated virtual file and I do not use virtual-mailman, but I'd rather take advantage of it if I could.
There's another guy in my situation who patched Postfix.py, and I recently contacted him to see if he's every communicated with you guys or submitted a patch. He said no, but he's be glad if I did. So that brings me here! :) I looked at the latest svn code, and I did not see something like this implemented. His site, which describes all of this, is:
http://www.qnan.org/~pmw/howtos/mailman-virtuals.html
I've submitted patches for Mailman before, and I'd be glad to do one again, but I wanted to ask:
- Do you see benefit to adding a variable that would define this
right-hand-side domain (e.g. "localhost") for virtual-mailman?
What is a good name for the variable? (POSTFIX_VIRTUAL_DESTINATION?)
Thanks, Joe