| Re: Configuring Postfix to post to FUDforum [message #36118 is a reply to message #36117] |
Mon, 05 March 2007 21:37   |
ramsey
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Registered: March 2007
Location: Atlanta, GA
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Got it working, and in a nutshell, here's how:
In /etc/aliases, I added a new alias:
list-bot: "|/usr/local/bin/php /full/path/to/FUDforum/scripts/maillist.php 1"
Then I ran the "newaliases" command as root (sudo newaliases) and reloaded postfix as root (sudo /etc/init.d/postfix reload).
Next, I set permissions on maillist.php to 777 (chmod 777 maillist.php) so that postfix could execute it (755 may also work just fine, but I haven't tested it).
Finally, I used the Mailman admin interface to subscribe list-bot(at)myhost(dot)com to the mailing list. Now, every message sent to the mailing list goes to list-bot and then gets added to the forum.
The beauty in this approach is that, with an announcements mailing list, everything needs to be approved. If you simply add a rule to pipe all messages to your mailing list address to the forum, then it skips the mailing list approval process, but since I'm piping all messages sent to a subscriber of the list to the forum, then only those messages approved to be sent to the mailing list get posted to the forum.
Ben Ramsey
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