[Mailman-Users] 7th Circle of Burning, Hot, Fire Filled HELL!

[DJ Freak]

I meant mm_cfg.py

On Dec 10, 2004, at 7:50 PM, DJ Freak wrote:

> Thank you very much for your reply David.
>
> I'm looking very carefully right now at your pp_cfg.py code.  You also  
> have fewer lines in your main.cf file than I do.
>
> Mine are:
>
> virtual_alias_maps = hash:/Users/mailman/data/virtual-mailman
> virtual_alias_domains = beathustler.com, jessicamartin.org,  
> nathanielmiller.com, wigglemusic.com, grapefruitgirl.com
> alias_maps = hash:/Users/mailman/data/aliases,  
> hash:/etc/postfix/aliases
> alias_database = hash:/etc/postfix/aliases
> virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual
>
> I had to change the order of these lines around and even split them in  
> two a bunch of times to get Mailman to finally work.  If something  
> about those lines screams wrong to any of you then let me know.  I  
> have made a lot of progress since my last post.  Using the above lines  
> (which may look odd I agree) I am finally able to post.  A huge  
> accomplishment.  How come you don't have virtual_alias_domains David?   
> Do you only host one site?
>
> The reason that I ask is that in my pp_cfg.py file I have  
> ['mail.beathustler.com'] (my server's mail identity).  I have gotten  
> the lists working by sending mails to  
> beat-hustler at mail.beathustler.com which is also the Preferred URL I  
> have set in the lists' Web Interface setting and I have postmapped and  
> newaliased and bin/mailmanctl restart'ed and postfix reloaded until my  
> fingers bleed needless to say.  However, I wish to have people send  
> subscription mails to beat-hustler-subscribe at beathustler.com not  
> mail.beathustler.com which refuses to work or ideally have people send  
> simply to subscribe at beathustler.com and have that mail sign them up to  
> a list which I would set.  Do you have any thoughts on that?   
> Remembering of course that I have several different sites on the  
> server several of which may have mailing lists in the future, granted  
> I'm willing to live with each URL having only one list each meaning  
> subscribe at domain1.com will only subscribe you to domain1.com's set  
> mailing list while sending subscribe at domain2.com will subscribe you to  
> #2's list etc.  Is this possible?
>
> Thanks for any thoughts on this David.
>
> -Evan
>
> On Dec 10, 2004, at 4:03 PM, David Relson wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 01:15:03 -0800
>> Evan Miller wrote:
>>
>>> Someone in this world please please tell me how to get Postfix,
>>> mailman, and virtual alias maps to all work together PLEASE.  This is
>>> not a Postfix issue.  Postfix works fine.  This is an integrating of
>>> Mailman issue.
>>>
>>> Here are my files.  I'm going to sleep now.  I've been at this for 12
>>> hours not counting the six days I spent getting Postfix to work.  If
>>> any of you have any mercy in your souls you will help me figure out
>> why
>>> /etc/postfix/virtual will not release its iron-clad grip on my
>> incoming
>>> mail and allow ~mailman/data/aliases to do its job and route my
>>> postings to their lists.  The lists themselves are fine.
>>>
>>> I have integrated all of the advice that you all have given me today
>>> much of which is not in the instructions and I have followed the
>> ReadMe
>>> as well.
>>
>> Hi Evan,
>>
>> You've got the same toolset as I do.  Maybe I can offer some tips.
>>
>> Note:  I'm something of a rookie myself.  I got mailman up/running  
>> about
>> 8 months ago and have 3 mailing lists with small subscriber
>> counts(around 500 for all 3) and low traffic volumes.  The info below  
>> is
>> how _I_ have it working and may not be the best way to do it.
>>
>> 1)  In /etc/postfix/main.cf there are two mailman related lines:
>>
>> virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual,
>>                hash:/var/lib/mailman/data/virtual-mailman
>>
>> alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/aliases,
>>            hash:/var/lib/mailman/data/aliases
>>
>> As you can guess, my main mailman directory is /var/lib/mailman (which
>> is where Mandrake puts things).  Your location may be different.
>>
>> The data/* files are maintained by mailman itself.
>>
>> 2)  /etc/postfix/master.cf doesn't reference mailman at all.
>>
>> 3) /etc/mailman is the mail man configuration file. On my system there
>> is a symlink from/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py to it. It has
>> several site specific lines at the end of the file:
>>
>> ##################################################
>> # Put YOUR site-specific settings below this line.
>>
>> #VERP_FORMAT='%(bounces)s+%(mailbox)s=%(host)s'
>> #VERP_REGEXP=r'^(?P<bounces>[^+]+?)\+(?P<mailbox>[^=]+)=(? 
>> P<host>[^@]+)
>> @.*$'
>>
>> VERP_PASSWORD_REMINDERS = Yes
>> VERP_PERSONALIZED_DELIVERIES = Yes
>>
>> VERP_DELIVERY_INTERVAL = 1
>>
>> #VERP_CONFIRM_FORMAT='%(addr)s+%(cookie)s'
>>
>> #VERP_CONFIRM_REGEXP=r'^(?P<addr>[^+]+?)\+(?P<cookie>[^@]+)@.*$'
>> VERP_CONFIRMATIONS=Yes
>>
>> DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'example.com'
>> DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'www.example.com'
>> add_virtualhost(DEFAULT_URL_HOST, DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST)
>> MTA = 'Postfix'
>>
>> POSTFIX_STYLE_VIRTUAL_DOMAINS = [ DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST ]
>>
>> There are a few extra commented lines in the above.  Offhand I don't
>> recall whether they show mailman default values or alternate setting
>>  that I could use but don't.
>>
>> HTH,
>>
>> David
>>
>
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