Hello,

I am trying to get postfix working with mailman and I just can’t seem to get it to work.

Essentially what I want is this:

My mailing domain is students.wesleyseminary.edu.

I want messages going to allstudents@students.wesleyseminary.edu to go to a mailman managed distribution list that sends to the other accounts on the system.

Any help on this? Thanks.

Here is what I have so far:

Postconf –n

alias_maps = hash:/var/lib/mailman/data/aliases,hash:/etc/mail/aliases

broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes

command_directory = /usr/sbin

config_directory = /etc/postfix

daemon_directory = /usr/lib64/postfix

data_directory = /var/lib/postfix

debug_peer_level = 2

default_destination_concurrency_limit = 20

home_mailbox = .Maildir/

html_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix-2.6.6/html

inet_interfaces = all

local_destination_concurrency_limit = 2

local_recipient_maps = proxy:unix:passwd.byname $alias_maps

local_transport = virtual

mail_owner = postfix

mailq_path = /usr/bin/mailq

manpage_directory = /usr/share/man

mydestination =

mydomain = students.wesleyseminary.edu

myhostname = wts-zimbra.wesleysem.edu

mynetworks_style = subnet

newaliases_path = /usr/bin/newaliases

owner_request_special = no

queue_directory = /var/spool/postfix

readme_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix-2.6.6/readme

recipient_delimiter = +

sample_directory = /etc/postfix

sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail

setgid_group = postdrop

smtp_tls_note_starttls_offer = yes

smtp_use_tls = yes

smtpd_banner = students.wesleyseminary.edu ESMTP $mail_name ($mail_version)

smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated, permit_mynetworks, reject_unauth_destination

smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes

smtpd_sasl_local_domain =

smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous

smtpd_tls_CAfile = /etc/postfix/cacert.pem

smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/postfix/newcert.pem

smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/postfix/newkey.pem

smtpd_tls_loglevel = 3

smtpd_tls_received_header = yes

smtpd_tls_session_cache_timeout = 3600s

smtpd_use_tls = yes

tls_random_source = dev:/dev/urandom

unknown_local_recipient_reject_code = 550

virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/old_students.cf

virtual_gid_maps = static:1000

virtual_mailbox_base = /

virtual_mailbox_domains = /etc/postfix/virtual_domains.cf

virtual_mailbox_maps = ldap:/etc/postfix/ldap-maps.cf

virtual_minimum_uid = 1000

virtual_uid_maps = static:1000

This is the mailmain’s alias file referenced in alias_maps:

/var/lib/mailman/data/aliases

# This file is generated by Mailman, and is kept in sync with the

# binary hash file aliases.db. YOU SHOULD NOT MANUALLY EDIT THIS FILE

# unless you know what you're doing, and can keep the two files properly

# in sync. If you screw it up, you're on your own.

# The ultimate loop stopper address

mailman-loop: /var/lib/mailman/data/owner-bounces.mbox

# STANZA START: mailman

# CREATED: Thu Sep 2 14:05:34 2010

mailman: "|/usr/lib64/mailman/mail/mailman post mailman"

mailman-admin: "|/usr/lib64/mailman/mail/mailman admin mailman"

mailman-bounces: "|/usr/lib64/mailman/mail/mailman bounces mailman"

mailman-confirm: "|/usr/lib64/mailman/mail/mailman confirm mailman"

mailman-join: "|/usr/lib64/mailman/mail/mailman join mailman"

mailman-leave: "|/usr/lib64/mailman/mail/mailman leave mailman"

mailman-owner: "|/usr/lib64/mailman/mail/mailman owner mailman"

mailman-request: "|/usr/lib64/mailman/mail/mailman request mailman"

mailman-subscribe: "|/usr/lib64/mailman/mail/mailman subscribe mailman"

mailman-unsubscribe: "|/usr/lib64/mailman/mail/mailman unsubscribe mailman"

# STANZA END: mailman

# STANZA START: allstudents

# CREATED: Thu Sep 2 14:05:34 2010

allstudents: "|/usr/lib64/mailman/mail/mailman post allstudents"

allstudents-admin: "|/usr/lib64/mailman/mail/mailman admin allstudents"

allstudents-bounces: "|/usr/lib64/mailman/mail/mailman bounces allstudents"

allstudents-confirm: "|/usr/lib64/mailman/mail/mailman confirm allstudents"

allstudents-join: "|/usr/lib64/mailman/mail/mailman join allstudents"

allstudents-leave: "|/usr/lib64/mailman/mail/mailman leave allstudents"

allstudents-owner: "|/usr/lib64/mailman/mail/mailman owner allstudents"

allstudents-request: "|/usr/lib64/mailman/mail/mailman request allstudents"

allstudents-subscribe: "|/usr/lib64/mailman/mail/mailman subscribe allstudents"

allstudents-unsubscribe: "|/usr/lib64/mailman/mail/mailman unsubscribe allstudents"

# STANZA END: allstudents

And this is my mailman’s mm_cfg.py file:

            /etcmainman/mm_cfg.py:

# -*- python -*-

# Copyright (C) 1998,1999,2000,2001,2002 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc.

#

# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or

# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License

# as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2

# of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

#

# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the

# GNU General Public License for more details.

#

# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License

# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software

# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.

"""This module contains your site-specific settings.

From a brand new distribution it should be copied to mm_cfg.py. If you

already have an mm_cfg.py, be careful to add in only the new settings you

want. Mailman's installation procedure will never overwrite your mm_cfg.py

file.

The complete set of distributed defaults, with documentation, are in the file

Defaults.py. In mm_cfg.py, override only those you want to change, after the

from Defaults import *

line (see below).

Note that these are just default settings; many can be overridden via the

administrator and user interfaces on a per-list or per-user basis.

"""

###############################################

# Here's where we get the distributed defaults.

from Defaults import *

##################################################

# Put YOUR site-specific settings below this line.

DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'students.wesleyseminary.edu'

DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'students.wesleyseminary.edu'

MTA = "Postfix"

POSTFIX_STYLE_VIRTUAL_DOMAINS = ['wesleyministrynetwork.com', ' students.wesleyseminary.edu']

add_virtualhost('www.wesleyministrynetwork.com', 'wesleyministrynetwork.com ')

Regards, Christopher Koeber