Jun 25, 2012 - Hello! After a shared server I co-maintain updated from a locally patched version of netqmail-1.05 to the Gentoo version based on.
I'm running Gentoo on my server (just a personal home server) and I've installed QMail 1.03-r8 to handle smtp for the LAN. This has worked perfectly for a while now. I have been using a provider to handle the POP side of my mail for reasons of reliability (I don't want a power outage on my end to mean bounced messages for everyone trying to reach me). My previous host allowed me to set up mailing lists on their end (Mindospring) but I changed over to 1and1 and they do not offer a similar service so I decided to set up a mailing list service on my home server so I installed Mailman 2.1.4 on the same box as my QMail setup. Here're my questions: 1) I want to be able to set up a 'MyList at MyDomain.com' mail account on the provider's side and let Mailman check it and treat it like a mailing list on my side. Is it possible to tell mailman to use remote pop accounts or must I be running a local pop service?
2) None of the primary Gentoo maintainers for Mailman seem to be using QMail. Therefore, when I emerged it I found myself loking at documentation that is mostly for people with different smtp services running. I am profoundly lost. I've never set up a mailing list service before. Can anyone point me to a decent how-to for QMail and Mailman?
So far, I've added the mailman default aliases to the /etc/mail/aliases file. I could not, however, run newaliases, since apparently QMail doesn't install /usr/bin/newaliases. That would be installed if I were using ssmtp or something else, but as you all probably know, QMail does things.um.differently.
I don't care about web presenses for the lists, or archives even. I just need the ablility to check a pop account and forward it like a mailing list (and of course alter the headers so that it acts like a mailing list as well). Is Mailman too much for what I need? Seems pretty powerful (and cool) so it was the one I wanted to install, but I'd hate to triple my work if there's a less powerful, but simpler and more approriate app out there. Any help you can provide would be appreciated.
I really haven't a clue what I'm doing here.:-) -Tom Caudron. Simon White You need fetchmail. It will go to a POP mailbox, get the mail, rewrite addresses as needed, and forward it to your local SMTP server which will have aliases for Mailman. Easy to set up, you can have it run every 5-10 minutes or something, which should allow for all but the highest volume mailing list requirements.
Downtime your end just means a gap in mailing list distribution. I don't know qmail, can't help you here.
I could flippantly say emerge postfix instead, but that's not helping you. 06-Feb-04 at 09:06, Tom and Denise Caudron (caudron at digitalelite.com) wrote: 1) I want to be able to set up a 'MyList at MyDomain.com' mail account on the provider's side and let Mailman check it and treat it like a mailing list on my side.
Is it possible to tell mailman to use remote pop accounts or must I be running a local pop service?You need fetchmail. It will go to a POP mailbox, get the mail, rewrite addresses as needed, and forward it to your local SMTP server which will have aliases for Mailman. Easy to set up, you can have it run every 5-10 minutes or something, which should allow for all but the highest volume mailing list requirements. Downtime your end just means a gap in mailing list distribution. Tom and Denise Caudron Simon White said, 'You need fetchmail.
It will go to a POP mailbox, get the mail, rewrite addresses as needed, and forward it to your local SMTP server which will have aliases for Mailman.' That's just what I was hoping to hear. Can anyone point me to any docs that talk about that process at all? I'm sure it's relatively simple, but after all the conf files I've stared at this morning, I'm starting to get a bad case of Jumbled-Brain and I'd like a nice how-to.:-) Simon White said, 'I. Simon White said, 'You need fetchmail. It will go to a POP mailbox, get the mail, rewrite addresses as needed, and forward it to your local SMTP server which will have aliases for Mailman.'
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That's just what I was hoping to hear. Can anyone point me to any docs that talk about that process at all? I'm sure it's relatively simple, but after all the conf files I've stared at this morning, I'm starting to get a bad case of Jumbled-Brain and I'd like a nice how-to.:-) Simon White said, 'I don't know qmail, can't help you here. I could flippantly say emerge postfix instead, but that's not helping you any.' You'd be surprised.
I'm unmerging qmail and I'll be emerging postfix. You aren't the only one to say that postfix is far easier to use with mailman and while I like qmail, i ain't married to it. Like above, if anyone knows of a good how-to for setting up postfix with mailman, please feel free to pass it along.:-) -Tom Caudron. On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 10:24, Tom and Denise Caudron wrote: Simon White said, 'You need fetchmail. It will go to a POP mailbox, get the mail, rewrite addresses as needed, and forward it to your local SMTP server which will have aliases for Mailman.' That's just what I was hoping to hear. Can anyone point me to any docs that talk about that process at all?
I'm sure it's relatively simple, but after all the conf files I've stared at this morning, I'm starting to get a bad case of Jumbled-Brain and I'd like a nice how-to.:-) Simon White said, 'I don't know qmail, can't help you here. I could flippantly say emerge postfix instead, but that's not helping you any.' You'd be surprised. I'm unmerging qmail and I'll be emerging postfix. You aren't the only one to say that postfix is far easier to use with mailman and while I like qmail, i ain't married to it. Like above, if anyone knows of a good how-to for setting up postfix with mailman, please feel free to pass it along.:-) -Tom CaudronTwo cheers for.you.
mate! Simon's advice is right on. You'll find Postfix integrates nicely with Mailman.
In the Mailman docs you should find safely nestled away a README.POSTFIX file. Everything you need to know to get Postfix working with Mailman is in that doc.
As for Fetchmail, who could do better than.the man. himself.
Eric Raymond: Good Luck - Jon Carnes.