6.4 Using the Qmail mail server

There are some issues that users of the qmail mail transport agent have encountered. None of the core maintainers use qmail, so all of this information has been contributed by the Mailman user community, especially Martin Preishuber and Christian Tismer, with notes by Balazs Nagy (BN) and Norbert Bollow (NB).

BN: Last but not least, here's a little script to generate aliases to your lists (if for some reason you can/will not have them automatically picked up using contrib/qmail-to-mailman.py):

This script is for the Mailman 2.0 series:

#!/bin/sh
if [ $# = 1 ]; then
    i=$1
    echo Making links to $i in the current directory...
    echo "|preline /home/mailman/mail/mailman post $i" > .qmail-$i
    echo "|preline /home/mailman/mail/mailman mailowner $i" > .qmail-$i-admin
    echo "|preline /home/mailman/mail/mailman mailowner $i" > .qmail-$i-owner
    echo "|preline /home/mailman/mail/mailman mailowner $i" > .qmail-owner-$i
    echo "|preline /home/mailman/mail/mailman mailcmd $i" > .qmail-$i-request
fi

Note: This is for a new Mailman 2.1 installation. Users upgrading from Mailman 2.0 would most likely change /usr/local/mailman to /home/mailman. If in doubt, refer to the --prefix option passed to configure during compile time.

#!/bin/sh
if [ $# = 1 ]; then
    i=$1
    echo Making links to $i in the current directory...
    echo "|preline /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post $i" > .qmail-$i
    echo "|preline /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman admin $i" > .qmail-$i-admin
    echo "|preline /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman bounces $i" > .qmail-$i-bounces
    # The following line is for VERP
    # echo "|preline /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman bounces $i" > .qmail-$i-bounces-default
    echo "|preline /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman confirm $i" > .qmail-$i-confirm
    echo "|preline /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman join $i" > .qmail-$i-join
    echo "|preline /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman leave $i" > .qmail-$i-leave
    echo "|preline /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman owner $i" > .qmail-$i-owner
    echo "|preline /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman request $i" > .qmail-$i-request
    echo "|preline /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman subscribe $i" > .qmail-$i-subscribe
    echo "|preline /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman unsubscribe $i" > .qmail-$i-unsubscribe
fi



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