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None of the core maintainers use qmail, so all of this -information has been contributed by the Mailman user community, especially -Martin Preishuber and Christian Tismer, with notes by Balazs Nagy (BN) and -Norbert Bollow (NB). - -<P> - -<UL> -<LI>You might need to set the mail-gid user to either <code>qmail</code>, - <code>mailman</code>, or <code>nofiles</code> by using the - <b class="programopt">--with-mail-gid</b> <b class="program">configure</b> option. - -<P> -<em>BN:</em> it highly depends on your mail storing policy. For example - if you use the simple <span class="file">~alias/.qmail-*</span> files, you can use - <b class="program">`id -g alias`</b>. But if you use <span class="file">/var/qmail/users</span>, the - specified mail gid can be used. - -<P> -If you are going to be directing virtual domains directly to the - <code>mailman</code> user (using ``virtualdomains'' on a list-only domain, for - example), you will have to use <b class="programopt">--with-mail-gid</b>=<var>gid - of mailman user's group</var>. This is incompatible with having list aliases - in <span class="file">~alias</span>, unless that alias simply forwards to - <code>mailman-listname*</code>. - -<P> -</LI> -<LI>If there is a user <code>mailman</code> on your system, the alias - <code>mailman-owner</code> will work only in <span class="file">~mailman</span>. You have to do - a <b class="program">touch .qmail-owner</b> in <span class="file">~mailman</span> directory to create - this alias. - -<P> -<em>NB:</em> An alternative, IMHO better solution is to <b class="program">chown - root ~mailman</b>, that will stop qmail from considering <code>mailman</code> to - be a user to whom mail can be delivered. (See ``man 8 qmail-getpw''.) - -<P> -</LI> -<LI>In a related issue, if you have any users with the same name as one of - your mailing lists, you will have problems if list names contain - "<tt class="samp">-</tt>" in them. Putting <span class="file">.qmail</span> redirections into the user's - home directory doesn't work because the Mailman wrappers will not get - spawned with the proper GID. The solution is to put the following lines - in the <span class="file">/var/qmail/users/assign</span> file: - -<P> -<div class="verbatim"><pre> - +zope-:alias:112:11:/var/qmail/alias:-:zope-: - . -</pre></div> - -<P> -where in this case the listname is e.g. <code>zope-users</code>. - -<P> -<em>NB:</em> Alternatively, you could host the lists on a virtual domain, - and use the <span class="file">/var/qmail/control/virtualdomains</span> file to put the - <code>mailman</code> user in charge of this virtual domain. - -<P> -</LI> -<LI><em>BN:</em>If inbound messages are delivered by another user than - <code>mailman</code>, it's necessary to allow it to access <span class="file">~mailman</span>. - Be sure that <span class="file">~mailman</span> has group writing access and setgid bit is - set. Then put the delivering user to <code>mailman</code> group, and you can - deny access to <span class="file">~mailman</span> to others. Be sure that you can do the - same with the WWW service. - -<P> -By the way the best thing is to make a virtual mail server to handle all - of the mail. <em>NB:</em> E.g. make an additional "A" DNS record for the - virtual mailserver pointing to your IP address, add the line - <code>lists.kva.hu:mailman</code> to <span class="file">/var/qmail/control/virtualdomains</span> - and a <code>lists.kva.hu</code> line to <span class="file">/var/qmail/control/rcpthosts</span> - file. Don't forget to HUP the qmail-send after modifying - ``virtualdomains''. Then every mail to lists.kva.hu will arrive to - mail.kva.hu's mailman user. - -<P> -Then make your aliases: - -<P> -<div class="verbatim"><pre> - .qmail => mailman@...'s letters - .qmail-owner => mailman-owner's letters -</pre></div> - -<P> -For list aliases, you can either create them manually: - -<P> -<div class="verbatim"><pre> - .qmail-list => posts to the 'list' list - .qmail-list-admin => posts to the 'list's owner - .qmail-list-request => requests to 'list' - etc -</pre></div> - -<P> -or for automatic list alias handling (when using the lists.kva.hu - virtual as above), see <span class="file">contrib/qmail-to-mailman.py</span> in the Mailman - source distribution. Modify the <span class="file">~mailman/.qmail-default</span> to - include: - -<P> -<div class="verbatim"><pre> - |preline /path/to/python /path/to/qmail-to-mailman.py -</pre></div> - -<P> -and new lists will automatically be picked up. - -<P> -</LI> -<LI>You have to make sure that the localhost can relay. If you start qmail - via inetd and tcpenv, you need some line the following in your - <span class="file">/etc/hosts.allow</span> file: - -<P> -<div class="verbatim"><pre> - tcp-env: 127. 10.205.200. : setenv RELAYCLIENT -</pre></div> - -<P> -where 10.205.200. is your IP address block. If you use tcpserver, then - you need something like the following in your <span class="file">/etc/tcp.smtp</span> file: - -<P> -<div class="verbatim"><pre> - 10.205.200.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" - 127.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" -</pre></div> - -<P> -</LI> -<LI><em>BN:</em> Bigger <span class="file">/var/qmail/control/concurrencyremote</span> values - work better sending outbound messages, within reason. Unless you know - your system can handle it (many if not most cannot) this should not be - set to a value greater than 120. - -<P> -</LI> -<LI>More information about setting up qmail and relaying can be found in the - qmail documentation. -</LI> -</UL> - -<P> -<em>BN:</em> Last but not least, here's a little script to generate aliases to -your lists (if for some reason you can/will not have them automatically picked -up using <span class="file">contrib/qmail-to-mailman.py</span>): - -<P> -This script is for the Mailman 2.0 series: - -<P> -<div class="verbatim"><pre> -#!/bin/sh -if [ $# = 1 ]; then - i=$1 - echo Making links to $i in the current directory... - echo "|preline /home/mailman/mail/mailman post $i" > .qmail-$i - echo "|preline /home/mailman/mail/mailman mailowner $i" > .qmail-$i-admin - echo "|preline /home/mailman/mail/mailman mailowner $i" > .qmail-$i-owner - echo "|preline /home/mailman/mail/mailman mailowner $i" > .qmail-owner-$i - echo "|preline /home/mailman/mail/mailman mailcmd $i" > .qmail-$i-request -fi -</pre></div> - -<P> -<div class="note"><b class="label">Note:</b> - -This is for a new Mailman 2.1 installation. Users upgrading from -Mailman 2.0 would most likely change <span class="file">/usr/local/mailman</span> to -<span class="file">/home/mailman</span>. If in doubt, refer to the <b class="programopt">--prefix</b> -option passed to <b class="program">configure</b> during compile time. -</div> - -<P> -<div class="verbatim"><pre> -#!/bin/sh -if [ $# = 1 ]; then - i=$1 - echo Making links to $i in the current directory... - echo "|preline /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post $i" > .qmail-$i - echo "|preline /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman admin $i" > .qmail-$i-admin - echo "|preline /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman bounces $i" > .qmail-$i-bounces - # The following line is for VERP - # echo "|preline /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman bounces $i" > .qmail-$i-bounces-default - echo "|preline /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman confirm $i" > .qmail-$i-confirm - echo "|preline /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman join $i" > .qmail-$i-join - echo "|preline /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman leave $i" > .qmail-$i-leave - echo "|preline /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman owner $i" > .qmail-$i-owner - echo "|preline /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman request $i" > .qmail-$i-request - echo "|preline /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman subscribe $i" > .qmail-$i-subscribe - echo "|preline /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman unsubscribe $i" > .qmail-$i-unsubscribe -fi -</pre></div> - -<P> - -<p><br /></p><hr class='online-navigation' /> -<div class='online-navigation'> -<!--Table of Child-Links--> -<A NAME="CHILD_LINKS"><STRONG>Subsections</STRONG></a> - -<UL CLASS="ChildLinks"> -<LI><A href="node36.html">6.4.1 Information on VERP</a> -<LI><A href="node37.html">6.4.2 Virtual mail server</a> -<LI><A href="node38.html">6.4.3 More information</a> -</ul> -<!--End of Table of Child-Links--> -</div> - -<DIV CLASS="navigation"> -<div class='online-navigation'> -<p></p><hr /> -<table align="center" width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2"> -<tr> -<td class='online-navigation'><a rel="prev" title="6.3.3 Performance notes" - href="node34.html"><img src='previous.png' - border='0' height='32' alt='Previous Page' width='32' /></A></td> -<td class='online-navigation'><a rel="parent" title="6 Set up your" - href="mail-server.html"><img src='up.png' - border='0' height='32' alt='Up One Level' width='32' /></A></td> -<td class='online-navigation'><a rel="next" title="6.4.1 Information on VERP" - href="node36.html"><img src='next.png' - border='0' height='32' alt='Next Page' width='32' /></A></td> -<td align="center" width="100%">GNU Mailman - Installation Manual</td> -<td class='online-navigation'><img src='blank.png' - border='0' height='32' alt='' width='32' /></td> -<td class='online-navigation'><img src='blank.png' - border='0' height='32' alt='' width='32' /></td> -<td class='online-navigation'><img src='blank.png' - border='0' height='32' alt='' width='32' /></td> -</tr></table> -<div class='online-navigation'> -<b class="navlabel">Previous:</b> -<a class="sectref" rel="prev" href="node34.html">6.3.3 Performance notes</A> -<b class="navlabel">Up:</b> -<a class="sectref" rel="parent" href="mail-server.html">6 Set up your</A> -<b class="navlabel">Next:</b> -<a class="sectref" rel="next" href="node36.html">6.4.1 Information on VERP</A> -</div> -</div> -<hr /> -<span class="release-info">Release 2.1, documentation updated on December 13, 2005.</span> -</DIV> -<!--End of Navigation Panel--> - -</BODY> -</HTML> |