[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#396537: mailman: Bug is bogus? README.Exim4.Debian needs to be updated

[Lionel Elie Mamane]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 08:45:31PM +0100, Tomas Pospisek wrote:

> IMHO the bug reported in #396537 some 2 years ago doesn't apply any more.
> I've followed the instructions in /usr/share/doc/mailman/README.Exim4.Debian
> but they are - as far as I can see - bogus as well.

The setup you describe does not play well with multiple virtual email
domains. It will - as far as Exim is concerned - put every mailing
list in every domain, which will lead to errors in mailman (unless you
configure mailinglistname at domain as aliases for the list in every list
for each virtual domain served by that Exim.

The whole MTA='Postfix', "condition" lines, etc are for handling
virtual domains correctly.

Indeed, if your exim serves one domain only, your / Nigel's simplified
setup will work just as well.

> Considered, that Exim4 is still Debian's default MTA, would it be
> possible to ship mailman in lenny with all the confusion removed
> from the README? Possibly even a setup that corresponds 1:1 to
> Nigel's in order to be in sync with upstream's idea how to run
> things?

I'm rather of the opinion the virtual-domain-correct setup should be
the one advocated by upstream. I keep procrastinating in sending it to
them... Bad of me.

-- 
Lionel