[Mailman-Users] Need assistance configuring Mailman version 2.1.15 on RHEL7

Fri Aug 9 08:57:54 EDT 2019

Hi Mark,

Thank you so much for providing me guidance.  We have mailing lists on our in-house which we want to decommission.  So, we have to keep the email addresses same for the respective mailing lists (means they must have @fdu.edu domain).

I wrote a program to create mailing lists using a default config file which has default settings including domain set to fdu.edu .  I added code which takes the list of subscribers for the mailing list exported from old system and subscribes them to the newly created mailing list which looks like is working based on some internal testing.  Also, we made only one change in mm_cfg.py file which is to change http: to https: so that url generated for newly created mailing list are secure links (ex. starts with https instead of default http).

I am curious whether there are any guides or security best practices for Mailman?  Our mailman version is 2.1.15 on RHEL7.

Thank you again for your help and guidance.  We really appreciate it.

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Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Need assistance configuring Mailman version 2.1.15 on RHEL7

On 7/16/19 5:24 AM, Mr. Vishal Gandhi wrote:
> We installed Mailman version 2.1.15 on RHEL7 using yum. We don't want mailing lists' email addresses with the same domain as the server has. For example: server is example1.fdu.edu . We would like to have email addresses of the mailing lists to end with @fdu.edu so that someone sends email to list1 at fdu.edu and the subscribers of the the mailing list list1 will receive it. Can some one please provide us some guidance on how can we accomplish this?
>
> We'll appreciate any help or guidance we may receive.

First of all, the primary support resource for this package should be
RedHat. See <https://wiki.list.org/x/12812344>.

That said, see <https://wiki.list.org/x/4030592>

What you want in mm_cfg.py is

DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'fdu.edu'
DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'fdu.edu'
VIRTUAL_HOSTS.clear()
add_virtualhost(DEFAULT_URL_HOST, DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST)

The second line above, DEFAULT_URL_HOST should be set to whatever host
name you want for accessing the web UI.

Then, if you have existing lists, you need to run Mailman's

bin/withlist -a -r fix_url

to update those.

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