On 2010-11-01 2:09 PM, Peter Reinhold wrote:

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Otherwise, mailman isn't hard to setup. and you get the benefits of a "real" list manager.

I looked at this, does this play well with Dovecot in the above mentioned configuration?

Yes, but with the following caveat - there is a limitation in the current stable 2.1.x branch where you can't have two identically named lists for different domains...

There is a patch for the 2.1.x branch that addresses this, and MM3 will finally fix this properly, but MM3 isn't quite ready for prime time yet (getting close though)...

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Best regards,

Charles

Peter Reinhold put forth on 11/1/2010 1:09 PM:

Someone wrote (Probably you), and the time was 16:45 01-11-2010

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I was wondering if anyone could recommend a simple mailing list manager that plays well with a Postfix/Dovecot setup, with virtual domains? depends on what you exactly needs. postfix alone may do the job, or it may not. anyway, post to the postfix-users list with more details.

I am using a postfix virtual users/domains setup (hosting multiple domains with multiple users), with SQL lookup.

What I need is to be able to define a mailing list on a given domain, so that mails received on that one address will be sent to a multiple of users, with the sender e-mail changed to be the address of the mailing list, so replies are sent straight to the list, and not the original sender.

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Otherwise, mailman isn't hard to setup. and you get the benefits of a "real" list manager.

I looked at this, does this play well with Dovecot in the above mentioned configuration?

You are confused or uneducated. Mailing list managers have nothing to do with IMAP or POP3, thus nothing to do with Dovecot, thus your question isn't relevant.

MLMs work at the SMTP address level, not the mailbox level. You create a list, the list address, and add members to the list. "Members" are SMTP email addresses. When you send an email to the list address, the list is expanded, and Postfix sends the emails, one at a time, to each member address. If these addresses point to mailboxes on the local machine, Postfix will deliver the emails to the mailboxes via whatever method you have configured (LDA, Maildrop, Procmail, Postfix local, etc).

The handling of the list function is handled entirely by Postfix and the MLM (such as Mailman or Majordomo). Dovecot isn't part of the MLM work flow process. Dovecot is entirely ignorant of the MLM.

-- Stan