[Mailman-Users] How to enable piping in /etc/aliases?

This is a Debian/Etch or Exim problem, and has nothing to do with
Mailman, except that Mailman gets caught by the fallout.

Try using their documentation, their FAQs, their mailing lists,
etc... to sort out this issue. You're not likely to be able to get
anything in the way of support on an OS or MTA-specific question like
this on a mailing list devoted to supporting Mailman.

I was hoping someone reading this mailing list has had the same problem
and could share the solution.
I tried to ask the question at Debians mailing list before I asked here.
I guess it has equally little to do with Exim as it has with Mailman.
Asking here was the last resort since no one answered me on the Debian
list. I'll try to ask at the Exim list. In the meantime; if anyone knows
the answer on this list, feel free to enlighten me :).

Thanks for your directions though.

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Regards,

Thomas Anderson
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I understand, but the problem is that there are a lot more people
running Debian/Etch and/or Exim who are likely to have run into this
problem and who are subscribed to their respective mailing lists, as
opposed to running the exact same configuration you are and
subscribed to this one.

We support a wide variety of OSes and several different MTAs, in
conjunction with Mailman. That said, we don't have that many
subscribers as a whole. So, the odds of finding someone here with
the exact same configuration you do is pretty slim.

Thanks for the explanation of the circumstances. I got a tip from
another forum on the internet. It suggested to try to replace Exim4 with
Postfix because it is claimed not to have piping disabled and that it is
tightly compatible with Mailman. I post this here in case someone
googles this lists archives.

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Regards,

Thomas Anderson
"Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur"

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Certainly, postfix is known to work well with Mailman. We use it in
conjunction with the various Mailman-hosted mailing lists at
python.org. However, sendmail also works fine, and I also know that
a number of people have set up Exim to work well.


In the case of Exim, I believe that the recommended method is to use
their "router" feature, so that you don't need to set up any aliases,
and therefore you presumably wouldn't need to use piping in your
aliases file.

However, if you are unable or unwilling to use the Exim "router"
solution, I believe that they can also make use of the standard
aliases file, including the use of pipes.

That said, beyond the Exim documentation that we link to, provided at
<http://www.exim.org/howto/mailman.html>, I'm not personally familiar
with how to integrate Mailman and Exim.