[Zope] Mail Boxer on Qmail

Chris Withers chris at simplistix.co.uk
Mon Nov 13 10:33:47 EST 2006


My recommendation would be to use a real mailing list manager like 
mailman instead...

Chris

Nancy Donnelly wrote:
> Hi;
> I'm running into trouble getting Mail Boxer to play nicely with qMail. I've installed and tested Maildrop Host. It works ok, so that potential bug is eliminated. I was confused as to where to put smtp2zope.py, so I put it here:
>     /usr/bin/smtp2zope.py 
> and symlinked it here:
>     /usr/local/sbin/smtp2zope.py
>     /var/qmail/bin/smtp2zope.py
> just to be safe ;)
> One of the how-to's I read said I should create the following file:
>     /var/qmail/aliases/.qmail-foo
> where "foo" is the name of my list, and enter the following line by itself:
>     foo: "|smtp2zope.py http://127.0.0.1:8080/foo/mailinglist/manage_mailboxer 20000"
> where the second "foo/mailinglist" is my path to the Mail Boxer instance.
> and finally I send a message to foo at smtp.example.com but I didn't get anything back.
> Did I get subscribed? How do I know? I don't see any entry in the "maillist" in the properties tab.
> 
> Also, one of the how-to's said I should set up a forwarding email address. That's not necessary, is it?
> TIA,
> Nancy
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