How To Integrating Zimbra 8.5.X With Mailman

Few days ago, i have a task from my boss to tried integrating Zimbra 8.5.0 with Mailman. Usualy, i always use this guidance to integrating Zimbra + Mailman in Bahasa Indonesia Integrasi Zimbra Mail Server & Mailman Mailing List. Overall my configuration work fine as guidance. But, there is a problem about insert aliases and Virtual data Mailman. Finally, i decide to ask at Zimbra Forum in this link http://www.zimbra.com/forums/administrators/75286-integrated-zimbra-8-5-0-mailman-problem.html and problem solved with my self 😀 . This is step by step how to integrating Zimbra 8.5.0 with Mailman

Description

Domain : imanudin.net
Hostname : mail.imanudin.net

Assume you have been install Mailman. Change GID Mailman with GID Zimbra, example 113 (can checked with cat /etc/passwd)

vi /etc/mailman/mailman.cgi-gid

Backup file /opt/zimbra/conf/httpd.conf to other folder, open and add this configuration at bottom

cp /opt/zimbra/conf/httpd.conf /opt/zimbra/conf/httpd.conf.back
vi /opt/zimbra/conf/httpd.conf

add this configuration at bottom

ScriptAlias /mailman/ /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/
<Directory /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/>
    AllowOverride None
    Options ExecCGI
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>
Alias /pipermail/ /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/
<Directory /var/lib/mailman/archives/public>
    Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride None
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
    # Only if you have internationalized archives
    AddDefaultCharset Off
</Directory>
# Uncomment the following line, replacing www.example.com with your server's
# name, to redirect queries to /mailman to the listinfo page (recommended).
# RedirectMatch ^/mailman[/]*$ http://www.example.com/mailman/listinfo

Configure Zimbra+Mailman

Edit file configuration of Mailman

vi /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py

fill as the following example

MTA = 'Postfix'
POSTFIX_ALIAS_CMD = '/opt/zimbra/postfix/sbin/postalias'
POSTFIX_MAP_CMD = '/opt/zimbra/postfix/sbin/postmap'
IMAGE_LOGOS = '/mmimages/'
DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN = 'http://%s:7780/mailman/'
POSTFIX_STYLE_VIRTUAL_DOMAINS = [ 'imanudin.net' ]
DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'mail.imanudin.net'
DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'imanudin.net'
VIRTUAL_HOSTS.clear()
add_virtualhost(DEFAULT_URL_HOST, DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST)

run the following command as root

cd /opt/zimbra/httpd/htdocs
mkdir mmimages
cp /usr/lib/mailman/icons/* mmimages/
chown -R zimbra:zimbra mmimages/
su - zimbra -c "zmapachectl restart"
 
cd /usr/lib/mailman
bin/newlist mailman adminmilist@imanudin.net
bin/mmsitepass -c list-creator-password
bin/config_list -i /var/lib/mailman/data/sitelist.cfg mailman
bin/genaliases
chown mailman:mailman /var/lib/mailman/data/aliases*
chown mailman:mailman /var/lib/mailman/data/virtual-mailman*
chmod 775 /var/lib/mailman/data/virtual-mailman.lmdb

Note : Change adminmilist@imanudin.net with Administrator milist email and list-creator password with password do you want

# Setup Mailman cron

cd /usr/lib/mailman/cron
crontab -u mailman crontab.in

# setup daemon
remove sendmail from the section begin init info at /etc/init.d/mailman, then save

chkconfig mailman on
service mailman start

# Configure Zimbra

su - zimbra
zmprov ms mail.imanudin.net zimbraMtaVirtualAliasMaps 'ldap:/opt/zimbra/conf/ldap-vam.cf,lmdb:/var/lib/mailman/data/virtual-mailman'
zmprov ms mail.imanudin.net zimbraMtaAliasMaps 'lmdb:/etc/aliases,lmdb:/var/lib/mailman/data/aliases'
zmprov ms mail.imanudin.net zimbraMtaMyDestination 'localhost mail.imanudin.net'
zmcontrol restart

# Test Milist
run the following command as root to create milist for testing

cd /usr/lib/mailman
bin/newlist milist-test adminmilist@imanudin.net secret

Good luck and hopefully useful 😀

23 comments

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Ridwan Firmansyah says:

January 13, 2015 at 9:57 am

wah mas immanudin, benar benar telah meyelamatkan saya yang sedang pusing,, karena masalah mapping hash dan lmdb… terima kasih sekali lagi mas,,

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1. iman says:
  
  January 13, 2015 at 10:11 am
  
  Sama sama mas :D. Semoga bermanfaat 😀
  
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bilal says:

September 14, 2015 at 6:33 pm

I do -> su – zimbra -c “zmapachectl restart”

then error screen :

[root@std htdocs]# su – zimbra -c “zmapachectl restart”

Stopping apache…AH00526: Syntax error on line 498 of /opt/zimbra/conf/httpd.conf:
AllowOverride not allowed here
failed.
Starting apache…AH00526: Syntax error on line 498 of /opt/zimbra/conf/httpd.conf:
AllowOverride not allowed here
failed.
[root@std htdocs]#

please help me

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1. iman says:
  
  September 15, 2015 at 3:35 am
  Hi Bilal,
  
  Please give a comment for some parameters so that like below and try to start again
```
ScriptAlias /mailman/ /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/
    
#	AllowOverride none
    Options ExecCGI
#    Order allow,deny
#    Allow from all

Alias /pipermail/ /usr/local/mailman/archives/public/

    Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
 #   AllowOverride none
 #   Order allow,deny
 #   Allow from all
    # Only if you have internationalized archives
    AddDefaultCharset Off
```
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irfan says:

September 17, 2015 at 3:25 pm

server:/usr/lib/mailman # bin/newlist mailman
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “bin/newlist”, line 99, in
from Mailman import mm_cfg
File “/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py”, line 61, in
VIRTUAL_HOST.clear()
NameError: name ‘VIRTUAL_HOST’ is not defined
=========================================================
Mas, kok pesan errornya gitu sih…
Terimakasih

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1. irfan says:
  
  September 17, 2015 at 3:51 pm
  
  maaf, yang itu udah bisa tapi ada lagi yang salah nih..
  
  zimbra@server:~> zmprov ms mail.biotrop.com zimbraMtaMyDestination ‘localhostmail.biotrop.com’
  ERROR: account.NO_SUCH_SERVER (no such server: mail.biotrop.com)
  
  itu yang versi saya….
  
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  1. iman says:
    
    September 21, 2015 at 2:11 am
    Hi mas Irfan,
    
    Bisa bantu paste hasil perintah berikut :
    
    su - zimbra zmhostname zmcontrol status
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Jeff Turmelle says:

October 28, 2015 at 5:02 pm

Thanks for the detailed instructions, I was wondering if you know if this continues to work with the 8.6 zimbra release?

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1. iman says:
  
  October 29, 2015 at 9:00 am
  
  Hi Jeff,
  
  Yes, this article still relevant for Zimbra 8.6
  
  Reply
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baratra says:

January 12, 2016 at 3:28 am

mas iman jika mailman kita di whm mau pindah ke zimbra migrasi account dan milis gimana yaa step by step nya.
apakah create manual satu persatu dan add manual anggota nya satu persatu atau sama seperti migrasi email dari cpanel ke zimbra?

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1. iman says:
  
  January 13, 2016 at 9:51 am
  
  Hi mas Baratra,
  
  Jika punya akses langsung ke root-nya, bisa coba cara berikut : https://imanudin.net/2014/09/22/mailman-tips-how-to-migrate-mailman-mailing-list/
  
  Cara diatas sering saya gunakan untuk melakukan migrasi dari server yang berbeda
  
  Reply
Arunmani Murugan says:

March 21, 2016 at 8:04 am

Hi Iman,

Thanks for the documentation..
I have tried the configuration in zimbra 8.6 setup but not working..
when I try with the url http://192.168.1.176:7780/mailman/create it is downloading a file create but not showing anything in webui.
Can you help me to resolve this issue.. Please..

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1. iman says:
  
  March 22, 2016 at 5:05 am
  
  Hi,
  
  Please try this link for solved the problem : http://forums.zimbra.com/administrators/64389-zimbra-8-vs-mailman.html
  
  Reply
Sugiyanto Sutikno says:

August 16, 2016 at 1:17 pm

Mas Iman,

saya ada masalah setelah upgrade Zimbra + mailman, mailman/admin ngak bisa diakses.. kira2 dimana yah salahnya ?

Salam
Sugiyanto

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1. iman says:
  
  August 18, 2016 at 7:42 am
  
  Hi mas,
  
  Apakah sudah dikonfigurasi juga pada http.conf si Zimbra nya mas? jika problem pada CGI, bisa coba panduan berikut mas : https://imanudin.com/2014/07/09/solved-problem-cgi-mailman-pada-zimbra-8/
  
  Reply
gts says:

May 3, 2018 at 6:45 pm

hi Iman,
how to configured the mailman in zimbra 8.7.10 on centos 7

gts

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gts says:

May 10, 2018 at 2:13 pm

Hi Iman,

Please reply on this and i have one more problem When I enabled When I enable the network module NG for this command : $ zmprov ms mail.domain.com zimbraNetworkMobileNGEnabled TRUE

ERROR: account.INVALID_ATTR_NAME (invalid attr name: invalid attr name – unable to modify attributes: ldap host=mail.domain.com:636: zimbraNetworkMobileNGEnabled: attribute type undefined)

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1. iman says:
  
  May 19, 2018 at 7:13 am
  
  Hi,
  I don’t know with your problem. I think, in this article did not any configuration about zimbraNetworkMobileNGEnabled
  
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prashant yadav says:

November 9, 2020 at 5:15 pm

how to configured the mailman in zimbra 8.7.15 on centos 7
and can we mail approve

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1. iman says:
  
  November 10, 2020 at 2:13 am
  
  Hello,
  You can follow this article
  
  Reply

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