Daily/mail/mailman.md

2022 03 19 + published on https://github.com/InstallAndUse/Daily /A

https://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-install-and-configure-mailman-with-postfix-on-debian-squeeze https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Mailman

installing mailman

sudo apt-get install mailman select ALL languages (english as well) select default language sudo newlist mailman sudo service mailman start

sudo nano /etc/mailman/mm_cfg.py sudo /usr/lib/mailman/bin/genaliases

sudo postconf -e 'relay_domains = lists.(domain)' sudo postconf -e 'transport_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/transport' sudo postconf -e 'mailman_destination_recipient_limit = 1' sudo postconf -e 'alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases, hash:/var/lib/mailman/data/aliases'

check: sudo nano /etc/postfix/master.cf

mailman   unix  -       n       n       -       -       pipe
  flags=FR user=list argv=/usr/lib/mailman/bin/postfix-to-mailman.py
  ${nexthop} ${user}

sudo nano /etc/postfix/transport

lists.(domain) mailman:

sudo postmap -v /etc/postfix/transport

sudo nano /etc/aliases

mailman:              "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post mailman"
mailman-admin:        "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman admin mailman"
mailman-bounces:      "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman bounces mailman"
mailman-confirm:      "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman confirm mailman"
mailman-join:         "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman join mailman"
mailman-leave:        "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman leave mailman"
mailman-owner:        "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman owner mailman"
mailman-request:      "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman request mailman"
mailman-subscribe:    "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman subscribe mailman"
mailman-unsubscribe:  "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman unsubscribe mailman"

sudo chown root:list /var/lib/mailman/data/aliases sudo chown root:list /etc/aliases sudo newaliases sudo service postfix restart sudo service mailman restart

testing: sudo apt-get install mutt nano .muttrc

set mbox_type=Maildir
set folder="~/Maildir"
set mask="!^\\.[^.]"
set mbox="~/Maildir"
set record="+.Sent"
set postponed="+.Drafts"
set spoolfile="~/Maildir"

mutt

sudo cp /etc/mailman/apache.conf /etc/apache2/sites-available/mailman.conf sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/mailman.conf uncomment , check sudo mkdir /var/www/lists sudo a2ensite mailman.conf sudo service apache2 restart

sudo nano /etc/mailman/mm_cfg.py

DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN = 'http://%s/'

sudo a2enmod cgid

sudo newlist trac-(domain) sudo list_lists

echo "(you)@(domain)" | sudo add_members -r - trac-(domain) sudo list_members trac-(domain)

mailman.conf

ServerName (domain)
DocumentRoot /var/www/
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/lists-error.log
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/lists-access.log combined

<Directory /var/lib/mailman/archives/>
    Options FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride None
</Directory>

Alias /pipermail/ /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/
Alias /images/mailman/ /usr/share/images/mailman/
ScriptAlias /admin /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/admin
ScriptAlias /admindb /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/admindb
ScriptAlias /confirm /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/confirm
ScriptAlias /create /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/create
ScriptAlias /edithtml /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/edithtml
ScriptAlias /listinfo /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo
ScriptAlias /options /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/options
ScriptAlias /private /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/private
ScriptAlias /rmlist /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/rmlist
ScriptAlias /roster /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/roster
ScriptAlias /subscribe /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/subscribe
ScriptAlias /mailman/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/

(you)@(domain):~/temp-mailman$ sudo nano fix_url.py

DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN = 'https://%s/mailman/'

(you)@(domain):~/temp-mailman$ sudo withlist -l -r fix_url mailman

Books:

• Anton's bookshelf