Re: [Mailman-Users] Multiple instances of Mailman on FreeBSD
On Aug 12, 2009, at 3:38 PM, Mel Flynn wrote:
On Wednesday 12 August 2009 11:40:47 Bill Moran wrote:
Were it me, I'd add jails to the system. [...] That's obviously not
the only way to get what you want, just my suggestion.And mine.
Thank you and Bill for the jail suggestion. I've never played with
jails, as I really only have one public IP address available.
FORCE_PKG_REGISTER abuse will hurt you sooner or later.
I am living in fear of that.
If you must, then set PKG_DBDIR, PORT_DBDIR and PREFIX correctly.
I don't understand the Package and Port databases well enough to
actually set them correctly, so I do suspect that I am causing trouble
for myself this way.
But things get much easier if you use seperate jails and a postfix
in mailhub mode on the main IP if you have only one incoming IP.
Ah. I hadn't thought of that. I do only have one IP. I hadn't
realized that I could set up private addresses on the same host.
Would the postfix on the main IP be able to run scripts that are on
individual jails? If not, I'd have to set up a listening postfix in
each jail which would accept mail forwarded to it only from the main
IP. For outgoing mail, mailman can talk SMTP to a "remote" mail
server. Another point of confusion with jails is that the HTTP
interface for mailman would need to be on the public IP, but would
need to access the appropriate mailman data that live within jails.
So I really think that unless I can do full jails, each with their own
SMTP and HTTP daemons on their own public IPs, this would be very
complicated to maintain. But I am only guessing here as I don't
really know what can and can't be done easily with jails.
Cheers,
-j
-- Jeffrey Goldberg http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/
Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
On Aug 12, 2009, at 3:38 PM, Mel Flynn wrote:
On Wednesday 12 August 2009 11:40:47 Bill Moran wrote:
Were it me, I'd add jails to the system. [...] That's obviously not the only way to get what you want, just my suggestion.
And mine.
Thank you and Bill for the jail suggestion. I've never played with jails, as I really only have one public IP address available. You could assign each jail an RFC 1918 private address and perform NAT for them on the host system. I do this with PF and it works like a charm.
-Boris
FORCE_PKG_REGISTER abuse will hurt you sooner or later.
I am living in fear of that.
If you must, then set PKG_DBDIR, PORT_DBDIR and PREFIX correctly.
I don't understand the Package and Port databases well enough to actually set them correctly, so I do suspect that I am causing trouble for myself this way.
But things get much easier if you use seperate jails and a postfix in mailhub mode on the main IP if you have only one incoming IP.
Ah. I hadn't thought of that. I do only have one IP. I hadn't realized that I could set up private addresses on the same host.
Would the postfix on the main IP be able to run scripts that are on individual jails? If not, I'd have to set up a listening postfix in each jail which would accept mail forwarded to it only from the main IP. For outgoing mail, mailman can talk SMTP to a "remote" mail server. Another point of confusion with jails is that the HTTP interface for mailman would need to be on the public IP, but would need to access the appropriate mailman data that live within jails.So I really think that unless I can do full jails, each with their own SMTP and HTTP daemons on their own public IPs, this would be very complicated to maintain. But I am only guessing here as I don't really know what can and can't be done easily with jails.
Cheers,
-j
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