Quoting Jay Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Tue, August 29, 2006 8:31 pm, Edwin Culp Williams wrote:
>> I've been using couriermlm happily for several years but now need
>> something with a webbased frontend. Mailman seems to be the choice of the
>> day but looking at the configuration, courier-mta was not taken into
>> consideration. I would sure like to find a howto for courier/mailman but
>> have only found postfix and exim. Does anyone know of one or could share
>> their esperiences and alias solution that I assume is solved with dot
>> courier files. I'm assuming that they need to be created for each
>> mailling list manually more or less like couriermlm but if not it would be
>> great to find out.
>
> I'm using mailman that shipped with RHEL4 with Courier-MTA and it works
> well. I had to rebuild the RPM though in order to add the daemon user as
> one who was allowed to call mailman directly (why that's a compile time
> option instead of a config file option beats me).
>
> My solution was to create actual accounts for mailing lists like I would
> create real users in my LDAP database (although I disable logins since no
> one should be using IMAP, POP3 or worse, Auth. SMTP to the mailing list
> account). Then in the mailing list accounts home I just copy a blank
> .courier-default file (guess I could have done one per list extension but
> I'm lazy) and a .mailfilter that looks like below. I change the LIST= to
> match the list name, guess I might be able to find an already set variable
> that would work but this has been fine. Once I've got this setup, I
> create the list in mailman and all works well.
Thanks a lot, Jay, That is similar to what I had in mind, although
untested. I appreciate your sharing it. I now know that it will
work, if I can set it up properly. I'm going to give it a try and
see. I also think that Bernd has an interesting solution that I want
to try also to see if I understand it.
Thanks again,
ed
> Jay
>
>
> -- begin .mailfilter --
>
> import EXT
> LIST=STAFF
>
> if ($EXT eq 'admin')
> {
> to "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman admin $LIST"
> }
>
> if ($EXT eq 'bounces')
> {
> to "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman bounces $LIST"
> }
>
> if ($EXT eq 'confirm')
> {
> to "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman confirm $LIST"
> }
>
> if ($EXT eq 'join')
> {
> to "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman join $LIST"
> }
>
> if ($EXT eq 'leave')
> {
> to "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman leave $LIST"
> }
>
> if ($EXT eq 'owner')
> {
> to "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman owner $LIST"
> }
>
> if ($EXT eq 'request')
> {
> to "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman request $LIST"
> }
>
> if ($EXT eq 'subscribe')
> {
> to "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman subscribe $LIST"
> }
>
> if ($EXT eq 'unsubscribe')
> {
> to "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman unsubscribe $LIST"
> }
>
> to "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post $LIST"
>
> -- end .mailfilter --
> --
> Jay Lee
> Network / Systems Administrator
> Information Technology Dept.
> Philadelphia Biblical University
> --
>
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