Hi Mark,

Thank you so much for providing me guidance. We have mailing lists on our in-house which we want to decommission. So, we have to keep the email addresses same for the respective mailing lists (means they must have @fdu.edu domain).

I wrote a program to create mailing lists using a default config file which has default settings including domain set to fdu.edu . I added code which takes the list of subscribers for the mailing list exported from old system and subscribes them to the newly created mailing list which looks like is working based on some internal testing. Also, we made only one change in mm_cfg.py file which is to change http: to https: so that url generated for newly created mailing list are secure links (ex. starts with https instead of default http).

I am curious whether there are any guides or security best practices for Mailman? Our mailman version is 2.1.15 on RHEL7.

Thank you again for your help and guidance. We really appreciate it.

[cid:3c7cfcc5-5781-418e-97d0-4d5a0b5036d6] Vishal K. Gandhi Systems Analyst/Application Developer/E-Mail Specialist University Systems and Networking 1000 River Road, Teaneck NJ 07666 Mail Stop: T-BH1-01 [phone]: 201-692-2414 | [fax] : 201-692-2494 | [email] : vgandhi@fdu.edumailto:vgandhi@fdu.edu "Fairleigh Dickinson University will never ask for your password. Please do not share it with others!"

From: Mailman-Users mailman-users-bounces+vgandhi=fdu.edu@python.org on behalf of Mark Sapiro mark@msapiro.net Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2019 7:08 PM To: mailman-users@python.org mailman-users@python.org Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Need assistance configuring Mailman version 2.1.15 on RHEL7

On 7/16/19 5:24 AM, Mr. Vishal Gandhi wrote:

We installed Mailman version 2.1.15 on RHEL7 using yum. We don't want mailing lists' email addresses with the same domain as the server has. For example: server is example1.fdu.edu . We would like to have email addresses of the mailing lists to end with @fdu.edu so that someone sends email to list1@fdu.edu and the subscribers of the the mailing list list1 will receive it. Can some one please provide us some guidance on how can we accomplish this?

We'll appreciate any help or guidance we may receive.

First of all, the primary support resource for this package should be RedHat. See https://wiki.list.org/x/12812344.

That said, see https://wiki.list.org/x/4030592

What you want in mm_cfg.py is

DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'fdu.edu' DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'fdu.edu' VIRTUAL_HOSTS.clear() add_virtualhost(DEFAULT_URL_HOST, DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST)

The second line above, DEFAULT_URL_HOST should be set to whatever host name you want for accessing the web UI.

Then, if you have existing lists, you need to run Mailman's

bin/withlist -a -r fix_url

to update those.

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Thank you so much for providing me guidance, Jim. We have mailing lists on our in-house which we want to decommission. So, we have to keep the email addresses same for the respective mailing lists (means they must have @fdu.edu domain).

I wrote a program to create mailing lists using a default config file which has default settings including domain set to fdu.edu . I added code which takes the list of subscribers for the mailing list exported from old system and subscribes them to the newly created mailing list which looks like is working based on some internal testing.

Thank you again for your help and guidance. We really appreciate it.

[cid:05b1c1e2-8ba7-4dba-9549-f1fc7287c3a8] Vishal K. Gandhi Systems Analyst/Application Developer/E-Mail Specialist University Systems and Networking 1000 River Road, Teaneck NJ 07666 Mail Stop: T-BH1-01 [phone]: 201-692-2414 | [fax] : 201-692-2494 | [email] : vgandhi@fdu.edumailto:vgandhi@fdu.edu "Fairleigh Dickinson University will never ask for your password. Please do not share it with others!"

From: Mailman-Users mailman-users-bounces+vgandhi=fdu.edu@python.org on behalf of Jim Ziobro list@ziobro.rochester.ny.us Sent: Friday, July 19, 2019 3:45 AM To: mailman-users@python.org mailman-users@python.org Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Need assistance configuring Mailman version 2.1.15 on RHEL7

On 7/16/2019 8:24 AM, Mr. Vishal Gandhi wrote:

We installed Mailman version 2.1.15 on RHEL7 using yum. We don't want mailing lists' email addresses with the same domain as the server has. For example: server is example1.fdu.edu . We would like to have email addresses of the mailing lists to end with @fdu.edu so that someone sends email tolist1@fdu.edu and the subscribers of the the mailing list list1 will receive it. Can some one please provide us some guidance on how can we accomplish this?

We'll appreciate any help or guidance we may receive.

An important consideration is whether you want to let your Mailman system create an arbitrary mailing list. For example would your mail admin allow the Mailman system create a list named: vgandhi@fdu.edu?

The easiest solution is to create mailing lists in a separate name space (domain). The common practice is to create lists under lists.fdu.edu. Then Mm-handler is the easy solution. You can ignore all the troubles with generating aliases files. If your mail admin really wants the list to appear in fdu.edu they can add the aliases under fdu.edu. Mm-handler is shown for sendmail but it will work in any mailer.

My updates to mm-handler are on: http://sw.ziobro.info/mm-handler/

Ciao, //Z\\ Jim Ziobro

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