Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:16:06 -0400 From: Boris Kochergin <spawk@acm.poly.edu> To: Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey@goldmark.org> Cc: Mail List - Mailman <mailman-users@python.org>, Mel Flynn <mel.flynn+fbsd.ports@mailing.thruhere.net>, Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>, FreeBSD Ports List <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>, jmelo@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multiple instances of Mailman on FreeBSD Message-ID: <4A834D36.7040408@acm.poly.edu> In-Reply-To: <C2726724-3BBA-49BA-A1BA-8F2D25A90241@goldmark.org> References: <70C7249E-1EC4-4D00-BECE-CD30B43436B5@goldmark.org> <20090812154047.a77a1add.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <200908121238.36253.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.ports@mailing.thruhere.net> <C2726724-3BBA-49BA-A1BA-8F2D25A90241@goldmark.org>
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Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: > On Aug 12, 2009, at 3:38 PM, Mel Flynn wrote: > >> On Wednesday 12 August 2009 11:40:47 Bill Moran wrote: > >>> Were it me, I'd add jails to the system. [...] That's obviously not >>> the only way to get what you want, just my >>> suggestion. >> >> And mine. > > Thank you and Bill for the jail suggestion. I've never played with > jails, as I really only have one public IP address available. You could assign each jail an RFC 1918 private address and perform NAT for them on the host system. I do this with PF and it works like a charm. -Boris >> FORCE_PKG_REGISTER abuse will hurt you sooner or later. > > I am living in fear of that. > >> If you must, then set PKG_DBDIR, PORT_DBDIR and PREFIX correctly. > > I don't understand the Package and Port databases well enough to > actually set them correctly, so I do suspect that I am causing trouble > for myself this way. > >> But things get much easier if you use seperate jails and a postfix in >> mailhub mode on the main IP >> if you have only one incoming IP. > > Ah. I hadn't thought of that. I do only have one IP. I hadn't > realized that I could set up private addresses on the same host. > Would the postfix on the main IP be able to run scripts that are on > individual jails? If not, I'd have to set up a listening postfix in > each jail which would accept mail forwarded to it only from the main > IP. For outgoing mail, mailman can talk SMTP to a "remote" mail > server. Another point of confusion with jails is that the HTTP > interface for mailman would need to be on the public IP, but would > need to access the appropriate mailman data that live within jails. > > So I really think that unless I can do full jails, each with their own > SMTP and HTTP daemons on their own public IPs, this would be very > complicated to maintain. But I am only guessing here as I don't > really know what can and can't be done easily with jails. > > Cheers, > > -j >
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