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[Flemming Bjerke <address@concealed>]

Thank you.

I for my part is not interested in forking sympa-community. I will look through the different installation input, which has been posted here, and see if it is relavant to update my getting started debian installation.

I will post the result on this list. Then, i must be up to others to find out how to update the installation instructions on sympa.org.

I have a question:

I notice that you use aliases to configure postfix. I use transport. Is there any reason for preferring either of these approaches?

Flemming

Your postfix setup

=============

  * Edit /etc/sympa/sympa.conf to add following line:
    ```
    aliases_program postalias
    ```

  * Edit /etc/sympa/aliases.sympa.postfix file as you prefer.

  * Edit /etc/postfix/main.cf:

    * Add following maps to $alias_maps:

      * hash:/etc/sympa/aliases.sympa.postfix

      * hash:/var/lib/sympa/sympa_aliases

    * Add following map to $alias_database:

      * hash:/etc/sympa/aliases.sympa.postfix

    * Add following line:
      ```
      recipient_delimiter = +
      ```

  * Run ``newaliases``.

  * Run ``su sympa -c /usr/sbin/sympa_newaliases.pl``.

  * Run ``systemctl restart postfix.service``.

N.B.: This instruction is to use postalias(1) maintainance tool.  If you
wish to use postmap(1), edit /etc/sympa/sympa.conf to add a line
``aliases_program postmap``.

The transport setup of postfix

====================

In /etc/postfix/master.cf, add:

sympa   unix        -   n   n   -   -   pipe
    flags=R user=sympa argv=/usr/lib/sympa/bin/queue ${recipient}
sympabounce unix    -   n   n   -   -   pipe
    flags=R user=sympa argv=/usr/lib/sympa/bin/bouncequeue ${recipient}

In /etc/postfix/main.cf, add :

transport_maps = regexp:/etc/postfix/sympa_transport.cf
local_recipient_maps = regexp:/etc/postfix/sympa_transport.cf
sympa_destination_recipient_limit = 1
sympabounce_destination_recipient_limit = 1

In /etc/postfix/sympa_transport.cf add :

/^.*-owner\@listes\.domaine\.fr$/ sympabounce:
/^.*\@listes\.domaine\.fr$/       sympa:

Restart sympa:

systemctl restart postfix sympa

On 11-06-2017 07:26, IKEDA Soji wrote:

Hi,

Attached files are bundled in RPM distribution I built (sysVinit for
RHEL6 and systemd for RHEL7).  It also approximately covers steps
after "./configure; make; make install".

You may freely modify and expand it under terms of CC-BY-SA.

Hope it helps.

Regards,

-- Soji

On Mon, 5 Jun 2017 06:08:07 +0200
Flemming Bjerke <address@concealed> wrote:

I think it is discouraging to newcomers that the official installation
instructions for sympa are a mess, at least for ubuntu og debian binary
installation. I think it is a quite efficient way to avoid newcomers
adopting sympa. They might event think: If installation instructions are
such a mess, what about the software?

http://www.sympa.org/linux.html

https://www.sympa.org/manual/web-interface

There are at least 4 recent installation instructions for ubuntu/debian:

https://www.cerenit.fr/blog/installation-de-sympa-sur-debian-jessie

https://blog.plip.com/2017/04/03/howto-sympa-6-1-on-ubuntu-16-04/

https://blog.plip.com/2017/06/04/howto-sympa-6-2-on-ubuntu-17-04/

I have posted instructions for a debian installation on sympa-users list.

I think it would be a very good idea if sympa FAQ were updated so that
such instructions easily could be found by newcomers. How could that be
done?

Flemming