diff options
| -rw-r--r-- | README.QMAIL | 46 |
1 files changed, 32 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/README.QMAIL b/README.QMAIL index e1c5323f2..7627c13bf 100644 --- a/README.QMAIL +++ b/README.QMAIL @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ this information has been contributed by the Mailman user community, especially Martin Preishuber and Christian Tismer, with notes by Balazs Nagy (BN). -- You might need to set the mail-gid user to either "qmail" or +- You might need to set the mail-gid user to either "qmail", "mailman", or "nofiles" by using the --with-mail-gid configure option. BN: it highly depends on your mail storing policy. For example if @@ -18,16 +18,22 @@ Balazs Nagy (BN). But if you use /var/qmail/users, the specified mail gid can be used. + If you are going to be directing virtual domains directly to the + "mailman" user (using "virtualdomains" on a list-only domain, for + example), you will have to use --with-mail-gid=<gid of mailman user's group> + This is incompatible with having list aliases in ~alias, unless that alias + simply forwards to "mailman-listname*". + - If there is a user `mailman' on your system, the alias `mailman-owner' will work only in ~mailman. You have to do a "touch .qmail-owner" in ~mailman directory to create this alias. - 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 - `-' in them. Putting .qmail redirections into the user's homedir - 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 - /var/qmail/users/assign file: + `-' in them. Putting .qmail 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 /var/qmail/users/assign file: +zope-:alias:112:11:/var/qmail/alias:-:zope-: . @@ -44,42 +50,54 @@ Balazs Nagy (BN). By the way the best thing is to make a virtual mail server to handle all of the mail. Eg. make a CNAME record for the virtual mailserver (like `lists.kva.hu', thus a `mail.kva.hu IN CNAME lists.kva.hu') - into the name service, put a `lists.kva.hu:mailman' line to + into the name service, add the line `lists.kva.hu:mailman' to /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains and a `lists.kva.hu' line to - /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts file. Then every mail to lists.kva.hu + /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts 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. Then make your aliases: .qmail => mailman@...'s letters .qmail-owner => mailman-owner's letters + + + For list aliases, you can either create them manually: .qmail-list => posts to the 'list' list .qmail-list-admin => posts to the 'list's owner .qmail-list-request => requests to 'list' etc - This allows people to write to mailman-list and such but it will be - held by Mailman by default. + or for automatic list alias handling (when using the lists.kva.hu virtual + as above), see "contrib/qmail-to-mailman.py" in the Mailman distribution. + Modify the "~mailman/.qmail-default" to include: + + |/path/to/python /path/to/qmail-to-mailman.py + + and new lists will automatically be picked up. - 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 /etc/hosts.allow file: - tcp-env: 127. 143.205.200 : setenv RELAYCLIENT + tcp-env: 127. 10.205.200 : setenv RELAYCLIENT - where 143.205.200. is your domain. If you use tcpserver, then you + where 10.205.200. is your IP address block. If you use tcpserver, then you need something like the following in your /etc/tcp.smtp file: - 143.205.200.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" + 10.205.200.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" 127.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" - BN: Bigger /var/qmail/control/concurrencyremote values work better - sending outbound messages. + 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. - More information about setting up qmail and relaying can be found in the qmail documentation. BN: Last but not least, here's a little script to generate aliases to -your lists: +your lists (if for some reason you can/will not have them +automatically picked up using "contrib/qmail-to-mailman.py"): #!/bin/sh if [ $# = 1 ]; then |