[Mailman-Users] (Newbie) Qmail and Mailman

[Michael Deck]

Rob, something's still not right. I assume you're running this as mailman 
but then what permissions to you have in /var/qmail/alias to allow mailman 
to write to it? I tried doing it as sudo (giving mailman sudo priv) but 
then the databases in mailman get created as uid root which screws it up 
too. A chown -R of everything in /home/mailman made *that* problem go away 
but now it hangs forever in bin/add_members.

At 01:11 PM 3/20/01 -0600, M. Robert Martin wrote:

>Here's the code I use for creating new aliases using qmail and
>mailman: (Note that I keep mailman in /var/mailman, not /home/mailman, so
>you should adjust accordingly.)
>
># cat /var/qmail/alias/qmail-newlist
>#!/bin/sh
>aliasdir="/var/qmail/alias"
>if [ $# = 1 ]; then
>     i=$1
>     echo Making new mailing list
>     /var/mailman/bin/newlist $i
>     echo Making aliases for $i...
>     echo "|preline /var/mailman/mail/wrapper post $i" >
>\ /$aliasdir/.qmail-$i
>     echo "|preline /var/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner $i" >
>\ /$aliasdir/.qmail-$i-admin
>     echo "|preline /var/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner $i" >
>\ /$aliasdir/.qmail-$i-owner
>     echo "|preline /var/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner $i" >
>\ /$aliasdir/.qmail-owner-$i
>     echo "|preline /var/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd $i" >
>\ /$aliasdir/.qmail-$i-request
>fi
>
>hope it helps some,
>
>rob martin
>
>
>On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Michael Deck wrote:
>
> > I crave pardon for being a Mailman and Qmail newbie. I have installed 
> Qmail
> > on a Mandrake 7.2 system and it seems to work as far as I've tested it. I
> > installed Mailman and, after wrestling with the usual permissions problem,
> > check_perms seems OK.
> >
> > When I create a new list with newlist, it tells me to create some aliases.
> > I'm not sure how to do this. More particularly, I'm not sure *where* to
> > create them. For list 'test3' I've tried creating
> >
> > .qmail-test3
> >
> > in ~/home/mailman, but then Qmail says there's no such user when I mail to
> > test3 at cleansoft.net. I also tried creating
> >
> > .qmail-test3
> >
> > in /var/qmail/alias
> >
> > but then Qmail routes all the mail for test3 at cleansoft.net into
> > /home/mailman/Mailbox.
> >
> > This has gotta be a really dumb question but could someone help me out?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >    -Mike
> >
> > Michael Deck
> > Cleanroom Software Engineering, Inc.
> >
> >
> >
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