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4.2.7. Mailman
Once mailman is installed, you can run it using the following command:
sudo systemctl start mailman.service
Once mailman is installed, you should create the default mailing list. Run the following command to create the mailing list:
sudo /usr/sbin/newlist mailman
Enter the email address of the person running the list: bhuvan at ubuntu.com Initial mailman password:
To finish creating your mailing list, you must edit your /etc/aliases (or equivalent) file by adding the following lines, and possibly running the
`newaliases' program:
## 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"
Hit enter to notify mailman owner...
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We have configured either Postfix or Exim4 to recognize all emails from mailman. So, it is not mandatory to make any new entries in /etc/aliases. If you have made any changes to the configuration files, please ensure that you restart those services before continuing to next section.
The Exim4 does not use the above aliases to forward mails to Mailman, as it uses a discover approach. To suppress the aliases while creating the list, you can add MTA=None line in Mailman configuration file, /etc/mailman/mm_cfg.py.