Hi,

The following script interfaces a qmail virtual domain to Mailman without the use of any aliases. That makes it a lot easier to add new lists. Could you place it in a "contrib" directory in the Mailman distribution?

Thanks

Bruce Perens

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# Configuration variables - Change these for your site if necessary. MailmanHome = "/home/mailman"; # Mailman home directory. MailmanOwner = "postmaster@localhost"; # Postmaster and abuse mail recepient. # End of configuration variables.

# qmail-to-mailman.py # # Interface mailman to a qmail virtual domain. Does not require the creation # of _any_ aliases to connect lists to your mail system. # # Bruce Perens, bruce@perens.com, March 1999. # This is free software under the GNU General Public License. # # This script is meant to be called from ~mailman/.qmail-default . It catches # all mail to a virtual domain, in my case "lists.hams.com". It looks at the # recepient for each mail message and decides if the mail is addressed to a # valid list or not, and bounces the message with a helpful suggestion if it's # not addressed to a list. It decides if it is a posting, a list command, or # mail to the list administrator, by checking for the -admin, -owner, and # -request addresses. It will recognize a list as soon as the list is created, # there is no need to add _any_ aliases for any list. It recognizes mail to # postmaster, mailman-owner, abuse, mailer-daemon, root, and owner, and # routes those mails to MailmanOwner as defined in the configuration # variables, above. # # INSTALLATION: # # Install this file as ~mailman/qmail-to-mailman.py # # To configure a virtual domain to connect to mailman, create these files: # # ~mailman/.qmail-default # |/usr/bin/python /home/mailman/mail-in.py # # /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains: # DOMAIN.COM:mailman # # Replace DOMAIN.COM above with the name of the domain to be connected to # Mailman. Note that _all_ mail to that domain will go to Mailman, so you # don't want to put the name of your main domain here. In my case, I created # lists.hams.com for Mailman, and I use hams.com as my regular domain. # # After you edit /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains, kill and restart qmail. #

import sys, os, re, string;

def main(): os.nice(5); # Handle mailing lists at non-interactive priority.

os.chdir(MailmanHome + "/lists");

try:
	local = os.environ["LOCAL"];
except:
	# This might happen if we're not using qmail.
	sys.stderr.write("LOCAL not set in environment?\n");
	sys.exit(100);

local = re.sub("^mailman-","",local);

names = ("root", "postmaster", "mailer-daemon", "mailman-owner", "owner", "abuse");
for i in names:
	if i == local:
		os.execv("/var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject"
		,("/var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject", MailmanOwner));
		sys.exit(0);

type = "post";
types = (("-admin$", "mailowner"),
	 ("-owner$", "mailowner"),
	 ("-request$", "mailcmd"));

for i in types:
	if re.search(i[0],local):
		type = i[1];
		local = re.sub(i[0],"",local);

if os.path.exists(local):
	os.execv(MailmanHome + "/mail/wrapper"
	,(MailmanHome + "/mail/wrapper", type, local));
else:
	bounce();
sys.exit(111);

def bounce(): bounce_message = """
TO ACCESS THE MAILING LIST SYSTEM: Start your web browser on http://%s/ That web page will help you subscribe or unsubscribe, and will give you directions on how to post to each mailing list.\n"""; sys.stderr.write(bounce_message % (os.environ["HOST"])); sys.exit(100);

try: sys.exit(main());

except SystemExit, argument: sys.exit(argument);

except Exception, argument: info = sys.exc_info(); trace = info[2]; sys.stderr.write("%s %s\n" % (sys.exc_type, argument)); sys.stderr.write("Line %d\n" % (trace.tb_lineno)); sys.exit(111); # Soft failure, try again later.

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