[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#398684: mailman: Hostname settings are ignored when generating admin emails

[Chris Adams]

Package: mailman
Version: 2.1.5-8sarge5
Severity: normal


We're using mailman with a virtual domain ("lists.example.edu") on an
existing postfix server ("example.edu"). Postfix is configured to use a
mailman transport for that domain.

We have the various host variables set to "lists.example.edu":

DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'lists.example.edu'
DEFAULT_URL_HOST   = 'lists.example.edu'
add_virtualhost(DEFAULT_URL_HOST, DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST)

This works for normal usage - list traffic goes to the right places, the
web pages are generated correctly and all of the host names listed in
emails are correct.

Unfortunately the email address generated for subscription requests and
other admin messages is generated incorrectly as "server.example.edu"
and so these requests bounce.

The list-related headers are generated correctly:
Message-ID: <mailman.1.1163552708.1505.test at lists.example.edu>
X-BeenThere: test at lists.example.edu
List-Id: test.lists.example.edu

Everything else is generated incorrectly:
Return-Path: <test-bounces at server.example.edu>
From: test-request at server.example.edu
Reply-To: test-request at server.example.edu
Sender: test-bounces at server.example.edu
Errors-To: test-bounces at server.example.edu

After a fair amount of searching it appears that this is not supposed to
be possible as long as DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST is set correctly. Postfix is
not configured to masquerade email.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686-smp
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages mailman depends on:
ii  apache [httpd]        1.3.33-6sarge3     versatile, high-performance HTTP s
ii  cron                  3.0pl1-86          management of regular background p
ii  debconf               1.4.30.13          Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  logrotate             3.7-5              Log rotation utility
ii  postfix [mail-transpo 2.1.5-9            A high-performance mail transport 
ii  pwgen                 2.03-1             Automatic Password generation
ii  python                2.3.5-2            An interactive high-level object-o
ii  ucf                   1.17               Update Configuration File: preserv

-- debconf information:
* mailman/queue_files_present:
  mailman/default_server_language: en
  mailman/gate_news: false
* mailman/site_languages: en
* mailman/used_languages: en
* mailman/create_site_list: