On Sunday, October 19, 2003, at 04:35 pm, Konstantin Ovchinnikov wrote:
Hello, all.
I've installed Mailman 2.1.3 on RedHat 9 from the source, web-interface is
working normally, but mail is not delivered.
The peculiarity of situation is that the host foo.bar.com, which runs Mailman,
as all the other hosts in bar.com deliver mail through the smart relay. For
security reasons we can't allow any host in our domain to deliver mail
directly.
Sendmail on foo.bar.com was up and running. When we say from this host, for
example:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] # sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
....
Hello everybody ^D
The mail is sent normally. We check [EMAIL PROTECTED] and get our mail.
We added the following into Mailman/mm_cfg.py: DELIVERY_MODULE = 'Sendmail' SENDMAIL_CMD = '/usr/sbin/sendmail'
You really do not want to use the Sendmail delivery module, that is why it is commented out in Defaults.py with the following comment:
<quote>
# WARNING: Sendmail has security holes and should be avoided. In fact, you
# must read the Mailman/Handlers/Sendmail.py file before it will work for
# you.
</quote>
You should tell Mailman to use SMTP to communicate with the outgoing MTA by saying
DELIVERY_MODULE = 'SMTPDirect'
Then, in mm_cfg.py, tell it to use the local sendmail instance, if that is set up correctly to use your main relay:
SMTPHOST = 'foo.bar.com'
or tell MM to send outgoing mail direct to the main relay server:
SMTPHOST 'relay.bar.com'
I prefer using the local SMTP server for various reasons but both should work if the local Sendmail instance is configured appropriately.
For example, we try to subscribe through the web-interface. Mailman wants to
send us confirmation letter, but it does it DIRECTLY (not through relay), and
I don't know, what it does with Sendmail. So, Sendmail can't deliver mail,
Sendmail just queues it. If Mailman did what is written in Mailman/Handlers/Sendmail.py:
cmd = mm_cfg.SENDMAIL_CMD + ' -f ' + mlist.GetBouncesEmail() + ' '
everything would work normally, but it DOES NOT!
The second question is what we have to do when we change Mailman/mm_cfg.py:
nothing or we have to rerun config_list?
Run $prefix/bin/mailmancntrl restart if you are using MM 2.1.x
-- Kostya.
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