Re: [Postfixadmin-devel] Integration with MLM?

[Christian B. <pos...@cb...>]

Hello,

Am Friday 07 January 2011 schrieb Aaron:
> I come from a primarily qmail background, and that's one thing that's
> stopped me from doing a full conversion -- I like Postfixadmin, but I
> can't imagine not having MLM integrated at the top level, especially
> if someone less technical might be doing management work.
> 
> I don't know if anyone's asked this before, but do you have a guide
> for, or plans to do integration with any of the mailing list
> manager?

We don't have a "direct" integration of any mailinglist manager, and 
also (at least I) don't have plans to do so.

There is also the limitation that virtual aliases in a database can't 
redirect to a pipe instead of a mail address (security restriction by 
postfix).

However, I can tell you how I integrate mailman - it's quite simple and 
works ;-)

a) /etc/postfix/main.cf
- add a domain like lists.yourdomain.com in mydestination
- add hash:/var/lib/mailman/data/aliases to alias_maps
- restart postfix

b) create the list in mailman (on the lists.yourdomain.com domain)

c) add redirects in postfixadmin:
- lis...@yo... -> lis...@li...
- lis...@yo... -> 
      lis...@li...
- [same for the other mailman aliases]

I can send you a script that does part c) if you want - however it is 
more or less becoming obsolete with the PostfixAdmin command line 
interface we have in SVN trunk.

BTW: I just put a similar text to the wiki for future reference:
https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/postfixadmin/index.php?title=Mailman_integration


Regarding more integration in postfixadmin: Mailman doesn't use MySQL 
databases, so it would be *lots* of work to integrate it.

I have no idea about other MLMs because mailman does all I need ;-)


Regards,

Christian Boltz
-- 
Ich wollte auf etwas anderes hinaus. Normale Anwender loggen sich doch
i.d.R.  nicht in irgendwelche Shells ein. Heutzutage muss doch alles
bunt sein. Denn nur was bunt ist, ist professionell. Das ist doch die
gängige Meinung der Schlipse. Seufz. [Jürgen Knelangen in suse-linux]