[Mailman-Developers] Postfix, Mailman, no aliases file, neat setup?

[Owen Taylor]

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J C Lawrence <claw@kanga.nu> writes:

> I'm looking to setup a test Mailman site under Postfix (need to do
> some performance modelling of Exim against Postfix under Mailman for
> a given membership list).  I can get a basic setup working no
> problem -- now I'm looking to duplicate the neater aspects I already
> have under Exim, such as losing the Mailman aliases file, etc.
> Anybody already done this?

Well, you can't lose the aliases file, but you can make it pretty
darn invisible.

From postfix's main.cf:

 alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases,hash:/home/mailman/aliases

And the following patch automatically updates the file.

Regards,
                                        Owen


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Content-Type: text/x-patch
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  filename=mailman-2.0beta5-postfix.patch

--- mailman-2.0beta5/bin/newlist.postfix	Sat Aug  5 18:24:11 2000
+++ mailman-2.0beta5/bin/newlist	Sat Aug  5 18:26:08 2000
@@ -56,6 +56,14 @@
 %(owner2)s %(listname)s-admin
 '''
 
+ALIASFILETEMPLATE = '''
+## %(listname)s mailing list
+## created: %(date)s %(user)s
+%(list)s "|%(wrapper)s post %(listname)s"
+%(admin)s "|%(wrapper)s mailowner %(listname)s"
+%(request)s "|%(wrapper)s mailcmd %(listname)s"
+%(owner2)s %(listname)s-admin
+'''
 
 
 def getusername():
@@ -117,7 +125,11 @@
         except Errors.MMListAlreadyExistsError:
             usage(1, 'List already exists: ' + listname)
 
-        print ALIASTEMPLATE % {
+	aliaspath = os.path.join(mm_cfg.PREFIX, 'aliases')
+	print "Appending aliases to " + aliaspath
+
+	aliasfile = open(aliaspath, "a")
+	aliasfile.write (ALIASFILETEMPLATE % {
             'listname': listname,
             'list'    : "%-24s" % (listname + ":"),
             'wrapper' : '%s/wrapper' % mm_cfg.WRAPPER_DIR,
@@ -126,8 +138,12 @@
             'owner2'  : "%-24s" % ("%s-owner:" % listname),
             'date'    : time.strftime('%d-%b-%Y', time.localtime(time.time())),
             'user'    : getusername(),
-            }
+            })
+	aliasfile.close()
 
+	print "Rehashing alias database"
+	os.system ("/usr/sbin/postalias hash:" + aliaspath)
+	
         if len(argv) < 5:
             print ("Hit enter to continue with %s owner notification..."
                    % listname),

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