Quoting Håkon Strandenes <haakon.strandenes@seilforening.no>:
I have a Linux server running Mailman, Postfix and Fetchmail. I'm running this at home for a small sailing club, with approximately 10 messages/day. The problem is that I have dynamic IP, and only a no-ip.com basic account.
But the sailing club is so lucky that they have a domain, a web/mailserver and unlimited number of pop3 accounts. So my question is:
How can I set up mailman/postfix to get mails form another, external pop3 account via fetchmail? I've already made the pop3 accounts, like listname-users@domain.com, listname-admins@domain.com etc. But how do I configure fetchmail, postfix and mailman?
If I understand you correctly, you want to be able to post to the list outside of your environment (at home). You want fetchmail to collect 'outside' posts and send them to the list?
If so, then create external POP3 accounts, but in the virtusertable (or similar) make sure the entries are something like this....
yourlistname-request@yourdomain.org.no yourlistname-request
Do this for all the entries required (post, admin, bounces, confirm, join, leave, onwer, subscribe, unsubscribe etc).
Then in your fetchmail script, instead of dumping mail to a local account, do this....
user yourlistname-request with pass password is yourlistname-request
The last bit corresponds to the entry in your aliases table. So instead of dumping the mail into a local account, it passes it through the aliases table just like normal port 25 mail would do.
I hope this all makes sense and if any of the more experienced guys (like BradK) know of a better or cleaner way to do this, please shout.
-- Regards Hilton