RE: I need help setting up Mailman

On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Oklahoma Information Technologies Group wrote:

> I did install the rpm supplied with RH 7.3 the "it's pretty good about
> telling you
> what steps you need to do by hand after installing" part is a mystery in
> that I didn't get any additional instructions.  What have I done wrong?

Sorry, my fault.  Now that the package is installed, type

	rpm -qi mailman

and you will get a description of steps to follow after installing.

>
> My ultimate configuration is this:
>
> RH 7.3 Box w/ httpd, mailman, MTA-courier/sqwebmail, masq router/firewall
> WAN(eth0) ports forwarded to MS SB Server w/ Exchange Server 5.5 on the LAN
> (10.0.0.x).
>
> MTA-Courier sends mail out and between local accounts okay.  Something isn't
> exactly okay in that I haven't been to receive mail to it... but I digress
> for the moment.

If using mailman, have you configured it to accept incoming mail?  Look
for a line like

	dnl DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')

in /etc/mail/sendmail.mc and make sure it starts with "dnl".  Then
regenerate your sendmail.cf:

	make -C /etc/mail


>
> The Exchange server is my actual mail server.  That is all mail@mydomain
> rolls into the Exchange server including mylist-user@mydomain.
>
> I believe I must forward or relay mylist-user@mydomain mail to the
> MTA-Courier server.
>
> I don't know where to start in pointing mailman to send mail via Exchange
> server and configuring mailman's mail boxes.
>
> I am really working in the dark here!!!

I haven't done this before, but I think you want to look in
/etc/mail/sendmail.mc for

	dnl Uncomment and edit the following line if your mail needs to be sent out
	dnl through an external mail server:
	dnl define(`SMART_HOST',`smtp.your.provider')

and configure that for your exchange server and rerun make.  No guarantees
though.  But usually bad advice will draw a correction 8^).


>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Saltzman [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 2:53 PM
> To: Discussion of Red Hat Linux 7.3 (Valhalla)
> Subject: Re: I need help setting up Mailman
>
>
> On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Oklahoma Information Technologies Group wrote:
>
> > I need help setting up Mailman on RH 7.3.  Is there anyone interested in
> > walking me through a few steps?
> >
> > moon
>
> If you use the RPM for Mailman on 7.3, .  I say, try it out and
> post when you get stuck.
>
>

-- 
		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs