[Mailman-Users] Mailman 2 + Postfix + virtual domains + lists subdomain

[Mark Sapiro]

On 7/6/16 1:51 PM, Jérôme wrote:
> 
> But may I have a mailbox like test at domain1.tld and a list like
> test at lists.domain1.tld ?
> 
> Since the alias reads
> 
> test:       "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post test"
> test-admin: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman admin test"
> ...
> 
> I assumed mailman would have everything called "test at ..." be directed
> to mailman.


The way Mailman-Postfix integration works the 'virtual-mailman'
alias_maps will map 'test at lists.domain1.tld' to the local name 'test'
and alias maps will deliver the local 'test' to mailman.

If you have an actual local user 'test' as long as Postfix delivers to
that user via the 'local' transport, it will honor the alias and deliver
to Mailman.


> Thinking twice, this file is used for local aliases, so it would only
> conflict with system users/aliases, not virtual aliases.


That is correct. If domain1.tld is a virtual domain (virtual mailbox
domain or virtual alias domain), it depends what transport is ultimately
used to deliver the mail to test at domain1.tld. If, for example, this is
dovecot, it won't consult alias_maps and will deliver to the user's mailbox.


> Or not conflict at all ? I'm not sure...
> 
> Avoiding conflicts is the reason I'm using the 'lists' subdomain.
> 
> 
> Back to the subject, I added hash:/var/lib/mailman/data/aliases to
> alias_maps and I'm still getting the same error :
> 
> <test at domain1.tld> (expanded from
>     <test at lists.domain1.tld>): user unknown
> 
> (I did restart Postfix, even Mailman, I even restarted the whole
> server.)
>
> Any known potential cause for this?
> 
> I don't think there is more to the config than what I already sent.
> 
> 
> I'm not sure how it all works. AFAIU, virtual-mailman makes sure that
> 
> test at lists.domain1.tld -> test
> 
> and then, aliases makes sure that 
> 
> test -> "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post test"
> 
> It looks like the first step succeeds, but then postfix appends
> domain1.tld to test before looking up in aliases.
> 
> Could it be related to that feature that makes postfix append $myorigin
> to unqualified recipient addresses.
> 
> (http://www.postfix.org/BASIC_CONFIGURATION_README.html#myorigin)


There is a possible fix for this.  Set

VIRTUAL_MAILMAN_LOCAL_DOMAIN = 'localhost'

in mm_cfg.py and rerun Mailman's bin/genaliases. You don't need to
restart Mailman immediately, just before you create a new list, but do
it anyway.

This will change the virtual-mailman mappings to things like

test at lists.domain1.tld   test at localhost.


> As a quick test, if I connect as local user and send a message using 
> 
>     mail nobody
> 
> here's what I get in the logs:
> 
> postfix/pipe[2909]: 0EC5AC15D: to=<nobody at domain1.tld>,
> orig_to=<nobody>, relay=dovecot, delay=0.11, delays=0.04/0.01/0/0.07,
> dsn=5.1.1, status=bounced (user unknown)
> 
> This seems to indicate that the postfix configuration is wrong,
> as /etc/aliases are also broken.


Note 'relay=dovecot'. Dovecot does not consult aliases.

If setting

VIRTUAL_MAILMAN_LOCAL_DOMAIN = 'localhost'

doesn't solve the issue, please post all the Postfix log entries related
to the failed delivery.

I think it will work, but if not, you may have to resort to the method
at <https://wiki.list.org/x/10715238>.

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