= Setting up Postfix and Mailman on UTK server =
== Postfix ==
== Mailman ==
The default mailman does not properly support multiple domains. On the UTK server we need to have separate instances of mailman for each domain so as to have different admins and main lists etc.
Installed multiple copies of mailman using the script and instructions from [https://github.com/dpocock/mailmen] - a tarball of the code is attached to this page for posterity, and the instructions are as follows (copied from GitHub and modified based on experience):
{{{
The aim of this script is to rapidly deploy multiple copies
of Mailman on a single host for virtual hosting.
Mailman's design has very limited support for virtual hosting.
Various techniques exist using a shared installation of Mailman.
They have some particular limitations:
* all virtual lists appear on a single web page
* each list name must be globally unique across all domains
* a single shared domain for the "site list"
The only effective way to purely achieve virtual hosting appears to
be installing multiple copies of Mailman, built from source, each
having its own directory tree. Each tree serves a single domain.
This does not require multiple mail server instances. A single
mail server instance can be used, however, it is necessary to use
a hack to map virtual aliases to unique names in the aliases file.
The enclosed script "gen-mapped-aliases" automates this.
== Setup procedure ==
1. Install the basic Mailman 2.1.15 Debian package (to provide images and
other shared artifacts under /usr/share)
2. Set up a directory for the aliases files:
mkdir /etc/mailmen
and add them to /etc/postfix/main.cf (do not use line breaks):
alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases,
hash:/etc/mailmen/mapped-aliases
virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual,
hash:/etc/mailmen/mapped-virtual
3. Get the sources
apt-get source mailman
or just download from the Mailman web site. If you are using
apt-get you may need to execute 'apt-get install dpkg-dev' before
the source download will work.
4. Build a custom instance for each domain, e.g.:
fakeroot ./make-mailman mailman_2.1.15.orig.tar.gz lists.example.org
If you are not on Debian, you may need to tweak "make-mailman", particularly
the environment variables at the beginning. If you get an error
message about Python Distutils, execute 'apt-get install python-dev
python-setuptools'
You will find tarballs under /tmp for each of your domains, e.g.
/tmp/mailman-lists.example.org.tar.gz
5. As root, unpack the compiled tarball
su -
cd /
tar xzf /tmp/mailman-lists.example.org.tar.gz
6. Enable the service for each domain:
update-rc.d mailmen-lists-example-org defaults
7. Create the site list for each domain:
/var/lib/mailmen/lists.example.org/bin/newlist mailman
Ignore the instructions about modifying your aliases file, it is done
later.
8. Fix permissions (or archives won't work) - must be done after creating
any list!
chown -R list /var/lib/mailmen/lists.simpleid.org/archives/private/*
of to do all lists at once:
chown -R list /var/lib/mailmen/*/archives/*
9. Update the aliases file for the mailer
Run the enclosed gen-mapped-aliases script
Manually check the results in /etc/mailmen
NOTE: this script must be run every time a new list is created
with newlist or through the web. Consider running
it from cron.
10. Reload the mailer after adding any new virtual domain:
service postfix reload
11. Add Mailman config to the Apache virtual host, note that you must
use the cgi-bin path corresponding to the virtual host.
See the files apache2.conf and apache2-vhost.conf for
specific examples that are ready to use.
Copyright (C) 2013 Daniel Pocock http://danielpocock.com
Licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) v3.0 or later.
Parts of these scripts adapted from the Mailman package in Debian
}}}
Config for webserver
{{{
DocumentRoot /var/www/lists.sasview.org
ServerName lists.sasview.org
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/lists.sasview.org-access.log combined
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/lists.sasview.org-error.log
RedirectMatch 302 ^/$ http://lists.sasview.org/mailman/listinfo
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/mailman/ /var/lib/mailmen/lists.sasview.org/cgi-bin/
ScriptAlias /mailman/ /var/lib/mailmen/lists.sasview.org/cgi-bin/
Alias /pipermail/ /var/lib/mailmen/lists.sasview.org/archives/public/
# use the images from the standard Debian package:
Alias /images/mailman/ /usr/share/images/mailman/
Alias /icons/ /usr/share/images/mailman/
AllowOverride None
Options +ExecCGI
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
Require all granted
Options FollowSymlinks
AllowOverride None
Require all granted
AllowOverride None
Require all granted
}}}
Set a mailmain site password
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sudo /var/lib//bin/mmsitepass
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