On 12/3/18 7:30 AM, Jim Ziobro wrote: > > Another approach was mm-handler.Mm-handler handles the security bridge > by calling back Mailman after it has switched to UID/GID: > mailman/mailman.An elegant solution.The v3 version > <http://sw.ziobro.info/mm-handler/>optionally allows mail not destined > for a mailing list to be delivered locally.Thus mm-handler could be used > to implement mailing lists in front of an existing mail domain.It looks > like the mm-handler could be integrated into Postfix and probably other > MTAs.
There's postfix_to_mailman.py. For our view of that, see <https://wiki.list.org/x/15564817> and <https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2012-September/074017.html>. > Current distributions of Sendmail contain a file /etc/mail/make which is > an appropriate place for such customization.The /etc/mail/make script > gets executed every time Sendmail restarts.It is called once as “make > aliases” and again as just “make” before Sendmail restarts.Instead of > creating a shell script you could just edit the /etc/mail/make file so > the makealiasesdb function reads: > > makealiasesdb() { > /usr/bin/cp /etc/mailman/aliases > /etc/mail/mailman-aliases/usr/bin/newaliases > /dev/null > } OK. What's the problem with this? > I started wondering where the interface between Mailman and MTA should > be defined.For example if I am using MTA=’Manual’ then I could setup my > /etc/mail/make as: > > makealiasesdb() { > > /usr/lib/mailman/bin/genaliases > /etc/mail/mailman-aliases > > /usr/bin/newaliases > /dev/null > > } > > > But the ‘Manual’ mailer has no capability of signaling the MTA that the > mailing lists have been updated.If I use MTA=’Postfix’ then genaliases > has no output.Apparently the genaliases program is a function of the MTA > setting.So I rolled my own aliases with a perl program: with MTA = 'Postfix' both genaliases and list creation/deletion update Mailman's data/aliases file and then run the command defined in POSTFIX_ALIAS_CMD. This is how aliases are automatically maintained with MTA = 'Postfix'. If you want genaliases to write the aliases to stdout just set MTA = 'Manual' (the default) <big snip> > > This is where I am now.I cut and paste Python code but don’t necessarily > understand it.If someone could give the Python code a look over then > I’ll organize it a little better for a release. At this point in the lifecycle of Mailman 2.1 I have no interest in implementing a 'Sendmail' MTA for Mailman. The method for adapting MTA = 'Postfix' for automatic alias maintenance with sendmail is documented and works. Mailman3 does things differently. See <https://mailman.readthedocs.io/en/latest/src/mailman/docs/mta.html>. We are interested in help with Sendmail in this area. -- Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
