GNU Mailman

Changing Local Links

Asked by cmnorton

When mailman sends email, like when it sends the confirmation email, I would like to change

http://webapps:8581/mailman/confirm/precinct3/<confirmation_code>

so, that it reads

http://some-externally-known-wan-address/tm_list/confirm/precinct3/<confirmation_code>

I have read documentation on changing existing lists using withlist and fix_url, but I still confused on what to change.

The reason I am doing this is webapps:8581 is inside our firewall. An apache server is set up to route to all our internal servers, so that only one server is exposed through our firewall.

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Best Mark Sapiro (msapiro) said : 		#1

The http://webapps:8581/mailman/ part of http://webapps:8581/mailman/confirm/precinct3/<confirmation_code> comes from interpolating the web host name (probably DEFAULT_URL_HOST) into DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN at list create time.

To change this, assuming 'some-externally-known-wan-address' does not contain a port specification, you'd set

DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'some-externally-known-wan-address'
DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN = 'http://%s/tm_list/'

in mm:cfg.py and then run fix_url to update the actual list settings. If 'some-externally-known-wan-address' does contain a port, you'd put that part of it in DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN. e.g.

DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'some-externally-known-wan-address-without-port-spec'
DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN = 'http://%s:port-spec/tm_list/'

You also need to put the appropriate ScriptAlias in apache config for the some-externally-known-wan-address host, e.g.

ScriptAlias /tm_list/ /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/

and if you have public archives, update PUBLIC_ARCHIVE_URL as well.

The caveat here is this affects all URLs other than public archives, so you also have to arrange for some-externally-known-wan-addres to be known inside your LAN if you are going to access the Mailman web interface from inside the LAN.

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cmnorton (octopusgrabbus) said : 		#2

Many thanks!

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cmnorton (octopusgrabbus) said : 		#3

Thanks Mark Sapiro, that solved my question.