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

[Tomas Pospisek]

On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:

> 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.

All right, I stand corrected. However, what is not described in the README 
is what should go into the MAILMAN_HOME/data/aliases File? How does it 
look like? Could you describe that?

(I do not understand how the condition line finds out that to which domain 
a list belongs to)

If you want I can help you in trying to get to howto updated.
*t