Re: [gentoo-server] Mailing List Manager that does not need to integrate tightly with the mail server?

["R. David Murray" <rdmurray@bitdance.com>]

On Wed, 25 May 2011 09:19:15 -0700, kashani <kashani-list@badapple.net> wrote:
> On 5/25/2011 7:31 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote:
> >> From: Ramon van Alteren<ramon@vanalteren.nl>
> >> Date: 2011-05-25 19:16
> >
> >> mailman ?
> >
> > Doesn't mailman require access to the mail spool dir?
> >
> > Or am I reading the docs wrong... @_@
> 
> 	It doesn't. Assuming Postfix you can just add it to your aliases. You 
> might need to do a bit more, but that's all that's left of my old 
> Mailman config at the moment.
> 
> # mailman settings
> # alias_maps = hash:/etc/mail/aliases
> alias_maps = hash:/etc/mail/aliases, hash:/var/lib/mailman/data/aliases
> 
> I usually make lists.mydomain.com a virtual domain in Postfix and hand 
> the whole thing to mailman. Simpler than adding individual aliases to 
> Mailman each time you create a list.

Could you share your config for doing this?  I did my setup by following
the mailman/postfix docs, so right now my config has repeated entries
for the virtual domain and the root domain, and while I don't see why I
should need the root domain addresses, that's the way mailman seems to
want to do it.

To the OP: you could also use getmail or fetchmail to pull incoming
mail via POP or IMAP and feed it to the relevant mailman programs,
but you'll have to write your own script for setting up the relevant
configuration for the various mailboxes (or do it by hand if you have
a limited number of lists).  I can't think of any way in which mailman
accesses the system mail spool, it is all alias-piped-to-program driven.

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