On Fri, Jun 05, 1998 at 08:11:43PM -0400, Corbett J. Klempay wrote:

Does Mailman 1.0b4 play nicely with qmail 1.02? I'm wondering about installing 1.0b4 on a qmail machine, and didn't know if they got along...

In terms of message delivery, Mailman will have no problems with qmail, since it talks to port 25 instead of calling sendmail directly. However, the aliases that get generated are for Sendmail and compatibles, which is essentially every MTA except Qmail.

I also suspect that a mail gid wouldn't be needed (it seems to me qmail does a setuid and setgid to the user before calling any programs). Thus, the C wrapper wouldn't be necessary. However, it might be, in which case, we definitely wouldn't be detecting the right GID.

However, I would like to support qmail, and perhaps make it generate the right aliases, etc. I'd like to see qmail users do:

./configure --with-qmail

or something like that.

So if you're willing to tackle the alias and GID issue, qmail should work. We'd definitely like to hear what is necessary to get it working, and I'd be willing to help out in any way I could on that one.

Oh, now that I'm thinking about it, I was assuming that qmail would be run kto use user aliases, which would mean all your mailing lists would have to start with "mailman", I think. I am sure it also has a system mode, but again that would require access to the system aliases and the wrapper script. I think Mailman + qmail should be configurable so that you can run it either way.

John