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diff --git a/src/mailman/docs/MTA.rst b/src/mailman/docs/MTA.rst index 5ca86307e..ac38c3026 100644 --- a/src/mailman/docs/MTA.rst +++ b/src/mailman/docs/MTA.rst @@ -297,6 +297,58 @@ with Exim configuration, you probably want to start with the chapter on .. _`how Exim receives and delivers mail`: http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch-how_exim_receives_and_delivers_mail.html +qmail +===== + +qmail_ is a MTA written by djb_ and, though old and not updated, still +bulletproof and occassionally in use. + +Mailman settings +---------------- + +Mostly defaults in mailman.cfg:: + + [mta] + # NullMTA is just implementing the interface and thus satisfying Mailman + # without doing anything fancy + incoming: mailman.mta.null.NullMTA + # Mailman should not be run as root. + # Use any convenient port > 1024. 8024 is a convention, but can be + # changed if there is a conflict with other software using that port. + lmtp_port: 8024 + +This will listen on localhost:8024 with LMTP and deliver outgoing +messages to localhost:25. See ``mailman/config/schema.cfg`` for more +information on these settings. + +qmail configuration +------------------- + +It is assumed that qmail is configured to use the ``.qmail*`` files in a user’s +home directory, however the instructions should easily be adaptable to other +qmail configurations. However, it is required that Mailman has a (sub)domain +respectively a namespace on its own. A helper script called ``qmail-lmtp`` is +needed and can be found in the ``contrib/`` directory of the Mailman source +tree and assumed to be on ``$PATH`` here. + +As qmail puts every namespace in the address, we have to filter it out again. +If your main domain is ``example.com`` and you assign ``lists.example.com`` to +the user ``mailman``, qmail will give you the destination address +``mailman-spam@lists.example.com`` while it should actually be +``spam@lists.example.com``. The second argument to ``qmail-lmtp`` defines +how many parts (separated by dashes) to filter out. The first argument +specifies the LMTP port of mailman. Long story short, as user mailman: +:: + + % chmod +t "$HOME" + % echo '|qmail-lmtp 1 8042' > .qmail # put appropriate values here + % ln -sf .qmail .qmail-default + % chmod -t "$HOME" + +.. _qmail: https://cr.yp.to/qmail.html +.. _djb: https://cr.yp.to + + Sendmail ======== |