I haven’t posted a how-to in a while, so I figured since I just spent half a
day installing mailman due to horrible documentation with nginx and mailman
and suggestions to install thttpd instead. Here is the link to the Mailman
I setup. So now onto the tutorial.
First your going to want to install Postfix and configure it.
$ sudo apt-get install postfix
Then your going to want to configure it:
$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure postfix
Insert the following details when asked (replacing example.com with your domain name if you have one):
- General type of mail configuration: Internet Site
- NONE doesn’t appear to be requested in current config
- System mail name: example.com (if you want an email like me@example.com)
- Root and postmaster mail recipient:
- Other destinations for mail: example.com, localhost.example.com, localhost (And any other domains you want postfix to handle)
- Force synchronous updates on mail queue?: No
- Local networks: 127.0.0.0/8 [::ffff:127.0.0.0]/104 [::1]/128
- Yes doesn’t appear to be requested in current config
- Mailbox size limit (bytes): ****
- Local address extension character: +
- Internet protocols to use: all
Restart postix
$ sudo service postfix restart
Now were going to want to install fcgiwrap.
$ sudo apt-get install fcgiwrap
You may need to adjust /etc/init.d/fcgiwrap with the appropriate user and group of your nginx install.
$ sudo nano /etc/init.d/fcgiwrap
FCGI_USER="your nginx user"
FCGI_GROUP="www-data"
Restart fcgiwrap
$ sudo service fcgiwrap restart
Now onto Mailman.
First install Mailman (the two install instructions are self-explanatory and up to you)
$ sudo apt-get install mailman
Now we have to create a mailman list (the instructions again are self-explanatory and up to you).
$ sudo newlist mailman
Now we have to create aliases for the mail so edit /etc/aliases
$ sudo nano /etc/aliases
Add the following lines. (Your going to have to do this for every new list)
## mailman mailing list
mailman: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post mailman"
mailman-admin: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman admin mailman"
mailman-bounces: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman bounces mailman"
mailman-confirm: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman confirm mailman"
mailman-join: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman join mailman"
mailman-leave: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman leave mailman"
mailman-owner: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman owner mailman"
mailman-request: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman request mailman"
mailman-subscribe: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman subscribe mailman"
mailman-unsubscribe: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman unsubscribe mailman"
Now we have to update the aliases.
$ sudo newaliases
And now restart postfix.
$ sudo service postfix restart
Now start up mailman
$ sudo service mailman start
Now onto the Nginx configuration, i’m assuming you already have a vhost setup if not go create one.
First we have to edit /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params
$ sudo nano /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params
put a comment ‘#’ in front of
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $request_filename;
so it will look like this:
#fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $request_filename;
Now open up your vhost for this tutorial im refering to it as /etc/nginx/sites-available/example.com.conf
$ sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/example.com.conf
Insert the following lines into your server block for whatever domain.
server {
[...]
location /cgi-bin/mailman {
root /usr/lib/;
fastcgi_split_path_info (^/cgi-bin/mailman/[^/]*)(.*)$;
include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_path_info;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/fcgiwrap.socket;
}
location /images/mailman {
alias /usr/share/images/mailman;
}
location /pipermail {
alias /var/lib/mailman/archives/public;
autoindex on;
}
[...]
}
Restart nginx and your done!
$ sudo service nginx restart
Notes and FAQ:
If you want to remove /cgi-bin Your going to have to edit
/var/lib/mailman/Mainman/mm_config.py and the nginx config.
If your having trouble with mail make sure your firewall isn’t blocking port 25.
Example: $ sudo ufw allow 25/tcp
