[Mailman-Users] Getting postfix-to-mailman-2.1.py to work

[Jon Carnes]

Looks interesting.

Personally I'm using the integration built-in to Mailman v2.1.x.  It
gives the same functionality and actually works.

Read the README.POSTFIX file that comes with Mialman version 2.1.x (you
can also find a copy in the archives.

With this setup, the aliases are automatically created in
~mailman/data/aliases at the same time that you create a list.  You add
that file to the alias_maps line in ~etc/postfix/main.cf and then set
~mailman/mm_cfg.py to use 'Postfix' as the mta module, and that's about
it.  The whole process is documented in the README file mentioned above.

Two caveats: you have to initialize the alias files by running
~mailman/bin/genaliases, and if you use the web-interface to create
lists then you need to either add the web-user to the mailman group - or
you need to make the alias files world writable so that the web-CGI can
update the aliases files (otherwise you get an error).

Good Luck - Jon Carnes

On Mon, 2003-04-14 at 13:09, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I'm having problems getting the postfix-to-mailman-2.1.py (see
> http://www.gurulabs.com/files/postfix-to-mailman-2.1.py) script to work
> with Postfix 2.0.3 on Debian Woody.
> 
> As described in the script, I setup a transport map which should pipe
> the mail to the "mailman" transport which in turn pipes it to the
> postfix-to-mailman script.
> 
> I modified the postfix-to-mailman to print some debug messages in a
> file.  However, this file just remains empty, so I suppose that the
> transport just doesn't get called.  And when I send a "help" message to
> the -request adress, I get a bounce:
> 
> <list-request at lists.message-center.info>: host
>     hetzner.email-server.info[213.133.109.44] said: 550
>     <list-request at lists.message-center.info>: User unknown in virtual
>     alias table (in reply to RCPT TO command)
> 
> I suppose I just missed a tiny bit - but can't figure out what :(
> 
> Any help would be MUCH appreciated!
> 
> Thanks a lot,
> 
> Alexander Skwar
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Configuration:
> 
> /etc/aliases:
> 
> postmaster:    root
> virusalert: root
> webmaster: root
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------
> 
> /etc/postfix/mydestinations:
> 
> localhost.localdomain
> localhost
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------
> 
> /etc/postfix/mysql-mydestination.cf:
> 
> hosts = unix:/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
> user = mail
> password = secret
> dbname = mail
> table = domain
> select_field = domain_name
> where_field = domain_name
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------
> 
> /etc/postfix/mysql-canonical.cf:
> 
> hosts = unix:/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
> user = mail
> password = secret
> dbname = mail
> table = virtual
> select_field = alias
> where_field = username
> additional_conditions = and status = '1' limit 1
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------
> 
> /etc/postfix/transport:
> 
> lists.message-center.info       mailman:
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Output of postconf -n:
> 
> alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases
> alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases
> append_dot_mydomain = no
> biff = no
> broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes
> command_directory = /usr/sbin
> config_directory = /etc/postfix
> content_filter = smtp-amavis:[127.0.0.1]:10024
> daemon_directory = /usr/lib/postfix
> debug_peer_level = 9
> mailbox_command = procmail -a "$EXTENSION"
> mailbox_size_limit = 0
> mailbox_transport = cyrus
> mydestination = /etc/postfix/mydestinations,
> mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-mydestination.cf
> mydomain = email-server.info
> myhostname = email-server.info
> mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8
> myorigin = /etc/mailname
> program_directory = /usr/lib/postfix
> recipient_delimiter = +
> sender_canonical_maps = mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-canonical.cf
> setgid_group = postdrop
> smtp_tls_CAfile = /etc/ssl/certs/DigitalProjects_CA.pem
> smtp_tls_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/DigitalProjects_Servers.pem
> smtp_tls_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/DigitalProjects_Key.pem
> smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mail_name ($mail_version) (Debian/GNU
> Linux)
> smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated,
> permit_mynetworks, reject_unauth_destination
> smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes
> smtpd_sasl_local_domain =
> smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous
> smtpd_tls_CAfile = /etc/ssl/certs/DigitalProjects_CA.pem
> smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/DigitalProjects_Servers.pem
> smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/DigitalProjects_Key.pem
> smtpd_tls_received_header = yes
> smtpd_use_tls = yes
> tls_random_source = dev:/dev/urandom
> transport_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/transport
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> 
> Alexander Skwar