Re: [Postfixadmin-devel] Integration with MLM?

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

Hello,

Am Saturday 08 January 2011 schrieb Geoff Shang:
> On Sat, 8 Jan 2011, Christian Boltz wrote:
...
> > - add hash:/var/lib/mailman/data/aliases to alias_maps
> 
> This path is used by the Debian package at least, but other
> installations (including from source) may place this file elsewhere.

openSUSE uses the same path, therefore I'd say it's quite common.
People who installed mailman from source will probably know they might 
have to adopt the path ;-)

[...]
> This part isn't necessary if you use Mailman's in-built postfix
> virtual domain support.
> 
> Put your virtual domain in POSTFIX_STYLE_VIRTUAL_DOMAINS in mm_cfg.py

Exactly that is what I want to avoid - I run mailinglists on lots of 
domains, and adding them in mm_cfg.py would mean lots of work. 
Additionally there's another admin on the server who needs to create 
mailinglists, but shouldn't need to edit config files.

I have a simple script to add a mailinglist in the way I described - 
that's easy enough for him. If he would need to edit mm_cfg.py all the 
time, I would probably have to spend some time on phone-supporting him 
;-)

> and add hash:/var/lib/mailman/data/virtual-mailman to
> virtual_alias_maps in main.cf (the same applies here about the
> location of this file).

That brings up the next "problem" - the aliases aren't visible in 
PostfixAdmin. So a domain admin could create an alias with the same name 
as a mailinglist - needless to say that either the mailinglist or the 
alias wouldn't work afterwards. (The risk that a domain admin deletes 
one of the mailman aliases isn't that big IMHO.)

> This issue is discussed further in the Mailman installation guide at
> http://list.org/./mailman-install/node12.html

I'd say the exact page is
http://list.org/mailman-install/postfix-virtual.html

I have updated the wiki page 
https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/postfixadmin/index.php?title=Mailman_integration
In detail, I have added a link for the mailman virtual domain setup and 
added pros and cons of every method.

If you think the page needs more changes, just tell me. Or, easier, ask 
for write access to the wiki as described on 
https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/postfixadmin/index.php?title=About
(sorry for the paperworks, but that's how SF has implemented it...)


Regards,

Christian Boltz
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