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6.1 Using the Postfix mail server</A>
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Mailman should work pretty much out of the box with a standard Postfix
installation.  It has been tested with various Postfix versions up to and
including Postfix 2.1.5.

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By default, Postfix treats <code>-owner</code> and <code>-request</code> addresses
specially.  Since you want Postfix to deliver such messages to Mailman, you
should turn off this option by adding this to your <span class="file">main.cf</span> file:

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In order to support Mailman's optional VERP delivery, you will want to disable
<code>luser_relay</code> (the default) and you will want to set
<code>recipient_delimiter</code> for extended address semantics.  You should comment
out any <code>luser_relay</code> value in your <span class="file">main.cf</span> and just go with the
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<var>VERP_FORMAT</var> and <var>VERP_REGEXP</var> in <span class="file">Defaults.py</span>.

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When attempting to deliver a message to a non-existent local address, Postfix
may return a 450 error code.  Since this is a transient error code, Mailman
will continue to attempt to deliver the message for
<var>DELIVERY_RETRY_PERIOD</var> - 5 days by default.  You might want to set
Postfix up so that it returns permanent error codes for non-existent local
users by adding the following to your <span class="file">main.cf</span> file:

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