[BlueOnyx:02520] Re: Help with Mailman

[Michael Stauber]

Hi Chris,

> If anybody has any input on this for me, I'd sure appreciate it.   I've
> been at it off and on for a few days with no joy.   I'm sure it's
> something little I'm missing.

Here is what I did to set up Mailman on blueonyx.it:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.devices.blueonyx.user/342/match=blueonyx+00342

You already got that far I presume.

After majordomo had been removed, I simply installed Mailman through Yum:

#> yum install mailman

Next a minor adjustment to /etc/httpd/conf.d/mailman.conf was needed. The 
complete file now looks like this:

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#
#  httpd configuration settings for use with mailman.
#

ScriptAlias /mailman/ /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/
<Directory /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/>
    AllowOverride None
    Options ExecCGI
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>


Alias /pipermail/ /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/
<Directory /var/lib/mailman/archives/public>
    Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride None
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

# Uncomment the following line, replacing www.example.com with your server's
# name, to redirect queries to /mailman to the listinfo page (recommended).

RedirectMatch ^/mailman[/]*$ http://www.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo
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There are two lines in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf that need to be changed to this:

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Kvirtuser hash -o /etc/mail/virtusertable.db, 
/etc/mail/virtusertable.mailman.db
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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O AliasFile=/etc/mail/aliases, /etc/mail/aliases.mailman
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Next step was to set up some mailing lists first and then to create the 
following files ...

/etc/mail/virtusertable.mailman
/etc/mail/virtusertable.mailman.db 

... and ...

/etc/mail/aliases.mailman
/etc/mail/aliases.mailman.db

But we setup a mailing list first:

#> cd /usr/lib/mailman/
#> bin/newlist blueonyx

That will guide you through the setup of the list. It will also show you the 
aliasses onscreen that you need to put into your 
/etc/mail/virtusertable.mailman

Mine looks like this:

-------------- /etc/mail/aliases.mailman ------------------------------
## mailman mailing list

## mailman mailing list (mailman at blueonyx.it)
mailman:              "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post mailman"
mailman-admin:        "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman admin mailman"
mailman-bounces:      "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman bounces mailman"
mailman-confirm:      "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman confirm mailman"
mailman-join:         "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman join mailman"
mailman-leave:        "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman leave mailman"
mailman-owner:        "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman owner mailman"
mailman-request:      "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman request mailman"
mailman-subscribe:    "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman subscribe mailman"
mailman-unsubscribe:  "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman unsubscribe mailman"

## users mailing list (blueonyx at blueonyx.it)
blueonyx:              "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post blueonyx"
blueonyx-admin:        "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman admin blueonyx"
blueonyx-bounces:      "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman bounces blueonyx"
blueonyx-confirm:      "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman confirm blueonyx"
blueonyx-join:         "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman join blueonyx"
blueonyx-leave:        "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman leave blueonyx"
blueonyx-owner:        "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman owner blueonyx"
blueonyx-request:      "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman request blueonyx"
blueonyx-subscribe:    "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman subscribe blueonyx"
blueonyx-unsubscribe:  "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman unsubscribe blueonyx"
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Hash it to generate the /etc/mail/aliases.mailman.db:

#> makemap hash /etc/mail/aliases.mailman.db < /etc/mail/aliases.mailman

Now we also need  /etc/mail/virtusertable.mailman, which contains all the 
virtual email account mappings. When I created mine I was lazy and did it the 
quick and dirty way. I needed to cover both user at www.blueonyx.it and 
user at blueonyx.it. A rewrite or alias rule could have solved that, but I just 
copied the relevant sections and did a search and replace, so it now looks 
like this:

-------------- /etc/mail/virtusertable.mailman ------------------------------
mailman at www.blueonyx.it mailman
mailman-admin at www.blueonyx.it   mailman-admin
mailman-bounces at www.blueonyx.it mailman-bounces
mailman-confirm at www.blueonyx.it mailman-confirm
mailman-join at www.blueonyx.it    mailman-join
mailman-leave at www.blueonyx.it   mailman-leave
mailman-owner at www.blueonyx.it   mailman-owner
mailman-request at www.blueonyx.it mailman-request
mailman-subscribe at www.blueonyx.it       mailman-subscribe
mailman-unsubscribe at www.blueonyx.it     mailman-unsubscribe
blueonyx at www.blueonyx.it        blueonyx
blueonyx-admin at www.blueonyx.it  blueonyx-admin
blueonyx-bounces at www.blueonyx.it        blueonyx-bounces
blueonyx-confirm at www.blueonyx.it        blueonyx-confirm
blueonyx-join at www.blueonyx.it   blueonyx-join
blueonyx-leave at www.blueonyx.it  blueonyx-leave
blueonyx-owner at www.blueonyx.it  blueonyx-owner
blueonyx-request at www.blueonyx.it        blueonyx-request
blueonyx-subscribe at www.blueonyx.it      blueonyx-subscribe
blueonyx-unsubscribe at www.blueonyx.it    blueonyx-unsubscribe
mailman at blueonyx.it     mailman
mailman-admin at blueonyx.it       mailman-admin
mailman-bounces at blueonyx.it     mailman-bounces
mailman-confirm at blueonyx.it     mailman-confirm
mailman-join at blueonyx.it        mailman-join
mailman-leave at blueonyx.it       mailman-leave
mailman-owner at blueonyx.it       mailman-owner
mailman-request at blueonyx.it     mailman-request
mailman-subscribe at blueonyx.it   mailman-subscribe
mailman-unsubscribe at blueonyx.it mailman-unsubscribe
blueonyx at blueonyx.it    blueonyx
blueonyx-admin at blueonyx.it      blueonyx-admin
blueonyx-bounces at blueonyx.it    blueonyx-bounces
blueonyx-confirm at blueonyx.it    blueonyx-confirm
blueonyx-join at blueonyx.it       blueonyx-join
blueonyx-leave at blueonyx.it      blueonyx-leave
blueonyx-owner at blueonyx.it      blueonyx-owner
blueonyx-request at blueonyx.it    blueonyx-request
blueonyx-subscribe at blueonyx.it  blueonyx-subscribe
blueonyx-unsubscribe at blueonyx.it        blueonyx-unsubscribe
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This also needs to be hashed:

#> makemap hash /etc/mail/virtusertable.mailman.db < 
/etc/mail/virtusertable.mailman

Afterwards Sendmail needed a restart and it was good to go:

#> /etc/init.d/sendmail restart

That's it from memory, which may be a bit fogged as I did this roughly a year 
ago.

Things to check:

You should also check if the cronjob /etc/cron.d/mailman is present. It should 
be created on installation of the Mailman RPM.

Likewise, the Sendmail restricted shell symbolic link for Mailman should be 
present in /etc/smrsh/:

#> ls -la /etc/smrsh/
total 16
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root     4096 Mar 29  2009 .
drwxr-xr-x 76 root root    12288 Sep 30 05:20 ..
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root mailman    29 Jan  1  2009 mailman -> 
/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root       27 Mar 29  2009 vacation.pl -> 
/usr/local/sbin/vacation.pl

If that all is the case, then it should work. Took me a few hours to sort it 
out back then, as I wasn't entirely aware that I needed 
/etc/mail/virtusertable.mailman, too. The docs that I used for my install back 
then didn't mention that small fact.

-- 
With best regards

Michael Stauber