Topic: MAILMAN HOWTO ON MITEL SME 6.0 - WORKING

[chaloner]

I had tried a few times to make this go and never had too much luck with it. I decided to give it another stab, and I finally got it to work.

Easy way to do this is;

1) Add a DNS entry for 'lists.yourdomain.com' with your DNS provider.
2) Add 'lists.yourdomain.com' as a Virtual Domain using the server-manager.

Untar the package with;

# tar -xvf mailman.tar

Install with;

# rpm -Uvh *.rpm

Update the mailman site password with;

# /opt/mailman/bin/mmsitepass

Fire it up with;

http://lists.yourdomain.com/mailman

Access the main "mailman" list;

http://lists.yourdomain.com/mailman/admin/mailman

Tarball Package contains;

e-smith-mailman-1.0-7.noarch.rpm
htdig-3.1.6-6.i386.rpm
mailman-2.1.3-1.i386.rpm
mhonarc-2.6.8-1.noarch.rpm

[chaloner]

I have renamed the tarball to mailman-2.1.3.tar and you can find it at ftp://chaloner.ca.

Have a nice day,

Chaloner Hale

[chaloner]

This file is the one we need to figure out;

/etc/e-smith/templates/opt/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py/40hostname

Contents;

##############################################################
#    IMPORTANT! - You must set these domain names!           #
#
# Mailman needs to know about (at least) two fully-qualified domain
# names (fqdn)
#
# 1) the hostname used in your urls (DEFAULT_URL_HOST)
# 2) the hostname used in email addresses for your domain (DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST)
#
# For example, if people visit your Mailman system with
# "http://www.dom.ain/mailman" then your url fqdn is "www.dom.ain",
# and if people send mail to your system via "yourlist@dom.ain" then
# your email fqdn is "dom.ain".  DEFAULT_URL_HOST controls the former,
# and DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST controls the latter.  Mailman also needs to
# know how to map from one to the other (this is especially important
# if you're running with virtual domains).  You use
# "add_virtualhost(urlfqdn, emailfqdn)" to add new mappings.

DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'lists.{ $DomainName }'
DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'lists.{ $DomainName }'

# Because we've overriden the virtual hosts above add_virtualhost
# MUST be called after they have been defined.

add_virtualhost(DEFAULT_URL_HOST, DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST)


Chaloner Hale

[chaloner]

There is another way to modify this beast. If you prefer not to use "lists.yourdomain.com" then you need to modify this file;

First stop mailman;

# service mailman stop

/etc/e-smith/templates/opt/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py/40hostname

Just edit out the 2 occurences of "lists.".

Original file modifed;

##############################################################
#    IMPORTANT! - You must set these domain names!           #
#
# Mailman needs to know about (at least) two fully-qualified domain
# names (fqdn)
#
# 1) the hostname used in your urls (DEFAULT_URL_HOST)
# 2) the hostname used in email addresses for your domain (DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST)
#
# For example, if people visit your Mailman system with
# "http://www.dom.ain/mailman" then your url fqdn is "www.dom.ain",
# and if people send mail to your system via "yourlist@dom.ain" then
# your email fqdn is "dom.ain".  DEFAULT_URL_HOST controls the former,
# and DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST controls the latter.  Mailman also needs to
# know how to map from one to the other (this is especially important
# if you're running with virtual domains).  You use
# "add_virtualhost(urlfqdn, emailfqdn)" to add new mappings.

# DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'lists.{ $DomainName }'
# DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'lists.{ $DomainName }'

DEFAULT_URL_HOST = '{ $DomainName }'
DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = '{ $DomainName }'

# Because we've overriden the virtual hosts above add_virtualhost
# MUST be called after they have been defined.

add_virtualhost(DEFAULT_URL_HOST, DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST)

Then re-expand the template with;

# /sbin/e-smith/expand-template /opt/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py

And then start mailman;

# service mailman start

And that should do it.

Chaloner Hale

[hamishau]

Hi Chaloner,

This install works beautifully but...

You need to reboot after the install. I had a lot of trouble cos I expected it to just work, and it didn't. Only when I rebooted did all the emails come through!

Also, how do I upgrade to 2.1.6 - the current Mailman version?

And, how do I delete the original "Mailman" list? I will be establishing my own named lists, and not using the original one. I have changed the flag so that the list owner can delete the list, and I can for lists which I create, but not for the original list.

All help is greatly appreciated

Hamish
Melbourne, AU

[hamishau]

Hi again Chaloner,

Got another small problem....

When I send out emails to the list, I get the list page in the footer as being the following:

http://server/mailman/listinfo/<list-name>

The hostname of my server, is obviously "server", but where is the host_name bit gone? I have had a look at the /opt/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py file, and can see that the DEFAULT_URL_HOST and DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST are set correctly. Why do they not show up in the footer correctly?

(PS: The email address that appears in the footer is correct)

Thanks in advance,

Hamish
Melbourne, AU

[Rien]

Hi,

I can't add a new DNS, so I changed the following files:

I changed the /opt/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py file:

DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'focus.demon.nl'
DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'focus.demon.nl'

# Because we've overriden the virtual hosts above add_virtualhost
# MUST be called after they have been defined.

add_virtualhost(DEFAULT_URL_HOST, DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST)

and I changed the /etc/e-smith/templates/opt/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py/40hostname   file:

DEFAULT_URL_HOST = '{ $DomainName }'
DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = '{ $DomainName }'

# Because we've overriden the virtual hosts above add_virtualhost
# MUST be called after they have been defined.

add_virtualhost(DEFAULT_URL_HOST, DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST)

The list runs. I can add a new list, add members and so on.

When I tried to restart Mailman with:

service mailman restart

I get the message:

[root@mlkserver root]# service mailman restart
id
[Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/opt/mailman/data/master-qrunner.pid'
Is qrunner even running?

and when I try to send a email to the list it says the  email-address doesn't exists.

What could be wrong?