Amahi Mailman

NOTE: This should only be attempted by advanced users.

DISCLAIMER: Although this has been tested, use at your own risk. I cannot guarantee that it will work for your system or not cause any serious problems.

Further DISCLAIMER: This tutorial is based on already having installed the Amahi Mail Server [1] which uses Postfix and mySQL. Further it is for Fedora 12. It has NOT been tested on Fedora 14.

Purpose

Mailman is free software for managing electronic mail discussion and e-newsletter lists. Mailman is integrated with the web, making it easy for users to manage their accounts and for list owners to administer their lists. Mailman supports built-in archiving, automatic bounce processing, content filtering, digest delivery, spam filters, and more. See [2] for details.

How to Install

Here's the sequence of events to get mailman up and running:

• Enable Advanced Settings in the Amahi Dashboard (Settings-->Settings)
• Create a web app in Amahi named mailman.
• Open a terminal window, become root, and run

yum install mailman

• Set your mailman site password:

/usr/lib/mailman/bin/mmsitepass _______

• Add/edit the following into /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py

DEFAULT_URL_HOST   = 'mailman.foo.com'
DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'foo.com'
POSTFIX_STYLE_VIRTUAL_DOMAINS = ['mailman.foo.com']
VIRTUAL_HOSTS.clear()
add_virtualhost(DEFAULT_URL_HOST, DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST)
MTA = 'Postfix'
(where foo.com is your domain name)

• Make the following changes in /etc/postfix/main.cf
  • Uncomment: recipient_delimiter = +
  • Append to virtual_alias_maps , hash:/etc/mailman/virtual-mailman
  • Append to alias_maps , hash:/etc/mailman/aliases
• Edit /etc/httpd/conf.d/10nn-mailman.conf using /etc/httpd/conf.d/mailman.conf
  • Replace the <Directory> section in 10nn-mailman.conf with the total content of mailman.conf
  • Uncomment and edit the RedirectMatch line with the ServerAlias name.
• Rename /etc/httpd/conf.d/mailman.conf to something NOT ending in .conf
• Add the domain mailman.foo.com to the Email domain SQL table.
• Reload httpd and postfix.

service httpd reload
service postfix reload

• Create the main mailman list:

/usr/lib/mailman/bin/newlist mailman

• NOTE: I had permissions problems later. So at this point fix your mailman permissions:

/usr/lib/mailman/bin/check_perms -f

• Start mailman.

service mailman start

Conclusion

You should now be able to access mailman at:

http://mailman.foo.com/mailman

Future Plans

Test this with Fedora 14.