[Mailman-Users] Virtual Domains for Mailing Lists in MailMan

[Bryan Harrison]

Mark,

Thank you.

I've found the resources you recommended helpful, but am stymied  
nonetheless.  I'm bright but not expert with Postfix or Mailman, and  
have been butting my head against this for days.

As a test, I'm trying to install mailman on the server gilded- 
bat.laughingboot.net, and create functioning lists mailman at laughingboot.net 
  and galaxy at gurgitate.org.  Virtual domains are humming along nicely  
in both Apache and Postfix.

Mailman's processes run and I can browse the interface site, but all  
my tests now bounce with:

<"|/usr/share/mailman/mail/mailman post galaxy"@gilded- 
bat.laughingboot.net>:
    data format error. Command output: |/usr/share/mailman/mail/ 
mailman post
    galaxy: Bad protocol

If you're feeling particularly saintly, I've P.S.'d install_mailman.sh  
below –  the very rough script I'm using to install and configure  
mailman.

Relevant lines from main.cf are

virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual,hash:/var/mailman/data/ 
aliases,hash:/var/mailman/data/virtual-mailman
virtual_mailbox_domains = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual_domains

mm_cfg.pys looks like this:

# Include Defaults:

from Defaults import *

# Site-specific overrides:

MTA = 'Postfix'
DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'laughingboot.net'
DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'gilded-bat.laughingboot.net'
add_virtualhost(DEFAULT_URL_HOST, DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST)
add_virtualhost('gurgitate.org', 'gurgitate.org')
POSTFIX_STYLE_VIRTUAL_DOMAINS = 'gurgitate.org'
DEFAULT_MAX_MESSAGE_SIZE = 10000           # KB

I'm running OS X Server 10.5.7.

I'll burn an SUV to the Gods on your behalf if you care to help me out.

Best regards,
Bryan


# !/bin/tcsh
# INSTALL MAILMAN TEST
# Last Updated:  2009-06-15
# Assumes prior installation of Xcode.

serveradmin stop mail
/usr/share/mailman/bin/mailmanctl stop

rm -Rf /var/mailman/*
rm -Rf /usr/share/mailman/*
mkdir -p -m ug=rwx,o=rx /var/mailman
mkdir -p -m a+rx,g+ws /usr/share/mailman
chown _mailman:_mailman /var/mailman
chown _mailman:_mailman /usr/share/mailman
chmod -R 2777 /var/mailman
chmod -R 2777 /usr/share/mailman

mkdir -p /Library/TemporaryItems
cd /Library/TemporaryItems

curl -O http://superb-west.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mailman/mailman-2.1.12.tgz
tar -xzf mailman-2.1.12.tgz
cd mailman-2.1.12

# Pick One, anyone, none of them work:

# ./configure --prefix=/usr/share/mailman --with-var-prefix=/var/ 
mailman --with-username=_mailman --with-groupname=_mailman --with-cgi- 
gid=_www
# ./configure --prefix=/usr/share/mailman --with-var-prefix=/var/ 
mailman --with-username=_mailman --with-groupname=_mailman --with-mail- 
gid=_mailman --with-cgi-gid=_www --without-permcheck
./configure --prefix=/usr/share/mailman --with-var-prefix=/var/mailman  
--with-username=_mailman --with-groupname=_mailman --with-mail- 
gid=_postfix --with-cgi-gid=_www --without-permcheck

make
make install

chown _www:_mailman /var/mailman/archives/private
chmod o-r-x /var/mailman/archives/private
touch /var/mailman/data/aliases
touch /var/mailman/data/virtual-mailman
scp #copy mm_cfg.py from where I'm working on it to its proper home.

/usr/share/mailman/bin/newlist -q mailman bryan at laughingboot.net  
mypassword
/usr/share/mailman/bin/config_list -i /var/mailman/data/sitelist.cfg  
mailman

/usr/share/mailman/bin/newlist -q galaxy bryan at gurgitate.org mypassword
/usr/share/mailman/bin/config_list -i /var/mailman/data/sitelist.cfg  
galaxy
/usr/share/mailman/bin/withlist -l -r fix_url galaxy -- 
urlhost=gurgitate.org

cd /usr/share/mailman/bin
./genaliases
serveradmin start mail
./mailmanctl -s start
./check_perms -f

rm -R /Library/TemporaryItems/