[Mailman-Developers] Problem in 2.1b1's contrib/qmail-to-mailman.py

[Barry A. Warsaw]

>>>>> "BW" == Bill Wagner <bwagner@potpie.org> writes:

    BW> That patch basically just changes it to point to mail/mailman
    BW> now, right?

Check cvs because I also just caught up on a few changes that Ben
Gertzfield contributed.

    >> From what I can tell, it's still not going to work.  I know you
    >> said that
    BW> qmailsupport's basically left up to the community, so I just
    BW> want to get as much info out there as I can (as I don't know a
    BW> damn thing about python) so maybe someone who does and uses
    BW> qmail can try and fix this.

    BW> At any rate, when changed to point to mail/mailman, the
    BW> deferral message says that mailcmd is an illegal command.  Is
    BW> this something that's been left over from 2.0.x and has been
    BW> depreciated for another equivalent in 2.1?  I might not know
    BW> any python, but I'm not afraid to hack code :)

It would help to see the exact error message.  If mailcmd is exiting
with an error code 2, it's probably the classic wrong-gid problem:

http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.004.htp

If it's something else, then check cvs and see if the latest updates
fix the problem.

    BW> And on a similar line of questioning, in 2.0.x, there was an
    BW> option available called MTA_ALIASES_STYLE which I'd typically
    BW> set to 'qmail' in my Mailman/mm_cfg.py.  It'd tell you what to
    BW> do in order to create the .qmail-* files for the list but it
    BW> doesn't seem to exist in 2.1 either?  Am I right in this
    BW> orjust smoking crack?

Correct, this isn't useful anymore.

For someone who is knowledgeable about qmail, the thing to do is to
take Mailman/MTA/Manual.py and port the output to qmail and wrap it
all in a file appropriate for Mailman/MTA/Qmail.py.  This would allow
you to set this in your mm_cfg.py file:

    MTA = 'Qmail'

Then again, it'd be better if qmail could just be taught to
automatically recognize Mailman lists, but again, I don't know enough
about qmail to write the appropriate recipes.

-Barry