Developers of Sympa

[Dick Visser <address@concealed>]

Hi

Before I start herassing you guys, let me introduce myself. I am the 
sysadmin of TERENA, a European network organisation that some of you 
already know. We have been using majordomo for ages but we lacked mainly 
two features:

1) true multi-domain support (per-domain namespace for lists)
2) DB backend for subscribers

Majordomo only had 1, and their mj2 project promised to have 2 but that 
does not work, despite 7 years of develment. Mailman since recently 
could do 1 and 2 but with the use of 3rd party patches that didn't 
appeal very much to me.

I was happily surprised that Sympa could do 1 and 2 with release 5.2 :)

Today I installed 5.2b1 on a test server, using Debian/3.1 with Postfix 
and PostgreSQL-8.1.3.

It seems that because this virtual domain stuff is relatively new, and 
therefore the docs are not yet updated (right?). So I am a bit confused 
how to configure virtual domains with 5.2 ;-)
Some (theoretical) questions I have:


- The 'way-to-go' with postfix is to have one "main emaildomain" and 
then have multiple other so-called virtual domains? (This is now already 
the way our postfix/majordomo works).

- From the *current* docs it looks like I will have to configure A 
records for each domain pointing to the same resource as the MX records 
in order for the web interface to work.
Is this really necessary? Isn't it possible to just have one URI to 
reach the interface, and configure all lists in all (virtual) domains there?

- What is the correct way of setting-up virtual hosts with 5.2 in 
combination with postfix-2.1.5?

- Since postfix can use a DB backend for its alias and virtual files, 
would it be an idea to have Sympa use that as well for managing them?



I already got the non-virtual part working and so far it looks very 
good. The automagic addition/deletion of the alias spaghetti is really 
nice ;)

BTW. It seems that two of the Sympa authors (Serge and Oliver) did a 
presentation on our yearly Conference in 2004:

http://www.terena.nl/events/archive/tnc2004/programme/presentations/show.php?pres_id=78

Best regards,

--
Dick Visser
(IT Support Officer)
TERENA  Singel 468D  1017AW  Amsterdam
The Netherlands
IP Phone: sip://address@concealed
Legacy phone:  +31205304488
http://www.terena.nl/~dick/pgp.key.asc