Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need help setting up mailman to work with exim [SOLVED]

[Michael Sullivan]

On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 14:21 +0200, Dirk GROSSE OSTERHUES wrote:
> Hej,
>
>
> On 11/5/07 19:02, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> > What do I need to do to set up mailman to work with exim?
> > [...]
>
> as you didn't post the relevant parts of your exim.conf I guess that you
> didn't read the notes in the compile process of mailman. There you'd
> have had the possibility to copy & paste the mailman-concerning entries
> for the exim.conf, which I post as quotation below:
>
> >   # Home dir for your Mailman installation -- aka Mailman's prefix
> >   # directory.
> >   # By default this is set to "/usr/local/mailman"
> >   # On a Red Hat/Fedora system using the RPM use "/var/mailman"
> >   # On Debian using the deb package use "/var/lib/mailman"
> >   # This is normally the same as ~mailman
> >   MM_HOME=/usr/local/mailman
> >   #
> >   # User and group for Mailman, should match your --with-mail-gid
> >   # switch to Mailman's configure script.
> >   # Value is normally "mailman"
> >   MM_UID=mailman
> >   MM_GID=mailman
> >   #
> >   # Domains that your lists are in - colon separated list
> >   # you may wish to add these into local_domains as well
> >   domainlist mm_domains=your.domains.here : seperated.by.a.colon
> >   #
> >   # -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> >   #
> >   # These values are derived from the ones above and should not need
> >   # editing unless you have munged your mailman installation
> >   #
> >   # The path of the Mailman mail wrapper script
> >   MM_WRAP=MM_HOME/mail/mailman
> >   #
> >   # The path of the list config file (used as a required file when
> >   # verifying list addresses)
> >   MM_LISTCHK=MM_HOME/lists/${lc::$local_part}/config.pck
>
> The integration works flawless and you don't have to fiddle around with
> /etc/mail/aliases as you're supposed to with postfix and sendmail. Just
> give exim the domains mailman is concerned with (very easy to set up
> virtual domains with that) and it will figure out if the address is
> concerned with a list or not.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Dirk

I thought that I would simply have to change the FQDM in one place in
mailman's configuration to change it for all lists universally, but I
guess I was wrong.  It works now.

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