{"id":1760,"date":"2012-07-16T08:59:08","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T08:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lineo.es\/configurar-mailman-gentoo\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T07:19:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T07:19:31","slug":"gentoo-mailman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lineo.es\/en\/gentoo-mailman\/","title":{"rendered":"Gentoo: Mailman with Nginx & Exim"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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This is how I installed\u00a0Mailman<\/a>\u00a0in a\u00a0Gentoo<\/a>\u00a0server, using\u00a0Nginx<\/a>\u00a0as the web server and\u00a0Exim<\/a>\u00a0as the MTA.<\/p>

Mailman<\/h4>

By default Mailman runs with the Apache user and group. First step is to configure Mailman so it runs with the Nginx user and group. To do so edit \/etc\/make.conf and add these lines:<\/p>

\/etc\/make.conf\nMAILMAN_CGIUID=\"nginx\"\nMAILMAN_CGIGID=\"nginx\"<\/pre>
Now you can go ahead and emerge Mailman. Next comes to configure it.<\/p>
Edit\u00a0\/etc\/mailman\/mm_cfg.py<\/tt>\u00a0(replace the url and email hosts by yours):<\/p>
\/etc\/mailman\/mm_cfg.py\nDEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'mailman.example.com'\nDEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'example.com'\n\n# https\nDEFAULT_URL_PATTERN = 'https:\/\/%s\/mailman\/'\nPUBLIC_ARCHIVE_URL = 'https:\/\/%(hostname)s\/pipermail\/%(listname)s'\n\n# Let Mailman know that the MTA (Exim) needs no aliases setting\nMTA = None<\/pre>
As the mailman user (add the cron jobs, create the site password, and add the main list):<\/p>
# su - mailman\n\nmailman $ crontab cron\/crontab.in\nmailman $ bin\/mmsitepass\nmailman $ bin\/newlist mailman<\/pre>
Run mailman:<\/p>
# rc-update add mailman default\n# service mailman start<\/pre>
Nginx<\/h4>
The Mailman web interface works with the CGI interface. To get it working with Nginx start by emerging spawn-fcgi and fcgiwrap:<\/p>
# emerge spawn-fcgi fcgiwrap<\/pre>
Create the configuration file and edit it:<\/p>
# cd \/etc\/conf.d\n# cp spawn-fcgi spawn-fcgi.fcgiwrap<\/pre>
These are the changes to the configuration file:<\/p>
\/etc\/conf.d\/spawn-fcgi.fcgiwrap\nFCGI_SOCKET=\/run\/fcgiwrap.sock\nFCGI_ADDRESS=\nFCGI_PORT=\nFCGI_PROGRAM=\/usr\/sbin\/fcgiwrap\nFCGI_USER=nginx\nFCGI_GROUP=nginx<\/pre>
Now start the daemon:<\/p>
# cd \/etc\/init.d\n# ln -s spawn-fcgi spawn-fcgi.fcgiwrap\n# rc-update add spawn-fcgi.fcgiwrap default\n# service spawn-fcgi.fcgiwrap start<\/pre>
Now add the Nginx server configuration:<\/p>
\/etc\/nginx\/mailman.conf\nserver {\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 listen 80;\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 server_name mailman.example.com;\n\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 location \/.well-known\/acme-challenge {\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 root \/var\/www\/letsencrypt;\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 }\n\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 location \/ {\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 return 301 https:\/\/$host$request_uri;\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 }\n}\n\nserver {\n    listen 443 ssl;\n    server_name mailman.example.com;\n    root \/usr\/lib64\/mailman\/cgi-bin;\n\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ssl_certificate \/etc\/letsencrypt\/live\/mailman.example.com\/fullchain.pem;\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ssl_certificate_key \/etc\/letsencrypt\/live\/mailman.example.com\/privkey.pem;\n    # Redirect\n    location \/ {\n        rewrite ^ \/mailman\/listinfo permanent;\n    }\n\n    location ~ ^\/mailman(\/[^\/]*)(\/.*)?$ {\n        fastcgi_split_path_info ^\/mailman\/([^\/]*)(.*)$;\n        include fastcgi_params;\n        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root\/$1;\n        fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_path_info;\n        fastcgi_pass unix:\/run\/fcgiwrap.sock-1;\n    }\n\n    location \/mailman-icons {\n        alias \/usr\/lib64\/mailman\/icons;\n    }\n\n    location \/pipermail {\n        alias \/var\/lib\/mailman\/archives\/public;\n    }\n}<\/pre><\/blockquote>
Include the file into the main Nginx configuration file:<\/p>
\/etc\/nginx\/nginx.conf\ninclude mailman.conf;<\/pre>
Add nginx to the mailman group, so it has access rights to the archive:<\/p>
# gpasswd -a nginx mailman<\/pre>
And restart Nginx:<\/p>
# service nginx restart<\/pre>
Exim<\/h4>
There is very good documentation on running Mailman with Exim:\u00a0Using Exim 4 and Mailman 2.1 together<\/a>.<\/p>
The only thing I found missing from the docs is a reference to the\u00a0mailman-loop<\/i>\u00a0address. Add an alias for\u00a0mailman-loop<\/i>\u00a0to a routable address, edit the\u00a0\/etc\/mail\/aliases<\/tt>\u00a0file, for example:<\/p>
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This is how I installed\u00a0Mailman\u00a0in a\u00a0Gentoo\u00a0server, using\u00a0Nginx\u00a0as the web server and\u00a0Exim\u00a0as the MTA. Mailman By default Mailman runs with the Apache user and group. First step is to configure Mailman so it runs with the Nginx user and group. To do so edit \/etc\/make.conf and add these lines: \/etc\/make.conf MAILMAN_CGIUID=”nginx” MAILMAN_CGIGID=”nginx” Now you can go […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_header_footer","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sin-categoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lineo.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lineo.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lineo.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lineo.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lineo.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1760"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lineo.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2143,"href":"https:\/\/lineo.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760\/revisions\/2143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lineo.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lineo.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lineo.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}