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I have successfully installed and configured postfix and mailman and everything works correctly. The server FQDN is lists.example.com. My problem is that I would like mails sent to subscribers to appear as if they came from [email protected] instead of [email protected]?

My system details are: postfix 2.9.6 mailman 2.1.14 Ubuntu 12.04

Here is the most significant part of the postfix configuration (/etc/postfix/main.cf):

myorigin = /etc/mailname
myhostname = lists.example.com
mydomain = example.com
alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases, hash:/var/lib/mailman/data/aliases
alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases
#mydestination = lists.example.com, lists, localhost.example.com, localhost
mydestination = $mydomain $myhostname localhost
relayhost =
mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8 [::ffff:127.0.0.0]/104 [::1]/128
mailbox_size_limit = 0
recipient_delimiter = +
inet_interfaces = all
home_mailbox = Maildir/
inet_protocols = all
mailman_destination_recipient_limit = 1
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OK, I finally got it after reading this very thorough HOWTO here.

  1. in /etc/postfix/main.cf --> mydomain = example.com
  2. in /etc/postfix/main.cf --> myorigin = $mydomain (i.e. the same - example.com)
  3. in /etc/mailman/mm_cfg.py --> DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'example.com'
  4. in /etc/mailname it's OK to leave lists.example.com

P.S.: The disappearing of the dev mailing list from the Mailman web interface was because of directory permissions/ownerships.

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Change this in mailman.

From http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-install/node43.html

You should check the values for DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST and DEFAULT_URL_HOST in Defaults.py. Make any necessary changes in the mm_cfg.py file, not in the Defaults.py file. If you change either of these two values, you'll want to add the following afterwards in the mm_cfg.py file:

add_virtualhost(DEFAULT_URL_HOST, DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST)

You will want to run the bin/fix_url.py to change the domain of any existing lists.

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  • I changed those two variables in /etc/mailman/mm_cfg.py from lists.example.com to example.com The line add_virtualhost(DEFAULT_URL_HOST, DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST) was already there so I didn't have to add it. Then ran: /usr/lib/mailman/bin/fix_url.py But it said: This script is intended to be run as a bin/withlist script... So I eventually ran: withlist -l -r fix_url dev Finally restarted the mailman service. Now on the web interface: lists.example.com/mailman/listinfo the dev list has disappeared.
    – Pavel Tankov
    Apr 13, 2013 at 17:58

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