Dave McGuire wrote:
On Feb 10, 2009, at 4:24 PM, Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
I'm trying to figure out a way, or if it is even possible, to use mailing list software (majordomo2) on a Postfix + Dovecot + virtual mailboxes system. And where I should be looking.
The examples on the Postfix site don't seem to address a purely virtual mailboxes system and I haven't found anything about doing it with deliver.
I think I'm at the wrong tree (Dovecot deliver) and should be pestering the Postfix list.
FTR, I host some sites for not-for-profits and they have asked about setting up lists. So far I've dodged the question but would like to attempt it now.
I have done this with great success. I must be brief as I'm in a rush, but here's the basic overview:
Thanks Dave. Looks clear enough. I'm glad you came up with this as I would never have thought of using a pipe. Very slick.
Only tricky part I see is the conversion to using majordomo2 instead of mailman.
Rod
- Create a new transport in master.cf, I called it "mailman". It looks like this:
mailman unix - n n - - pipe flags=FR user=mailman:nobody argv=/usr/local/mailman/bin/postfix-to-mailman.py ${nexthop} ${user}
The "postfix-to-mailman.py" script can be found via google. I had to make some minor changes to the one I found; I can send you mine if you get stuck.
Create a "pseudo-subdomain" (not in DNS) for Mailman, I used "lists.<domainname>".
Set the transport for the "lists.<domainname>" to be "mailman:" in your transport map.
Rewrite all relevant "<listaddress>@<domainname>" addresses (-admin, -request, etc) into the "lists" subdomain of the form "<listaddress>@lists.<domainname>" using virtual aliases.
If you run into trouble, contact me off-list and I'll try to help.
-Dave