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Mail container setup

This is one of the trickier ones.

This container depends on coffee, so make sure coffee has been setup first.

Instructions

First, get the email server up and running:

ansible-playbook main.yml

At this point, it would be a good idea to send a few emails back and forth between the dummy users to make sure everything's working (their usernames are alice, bob, and eve). Mutt has already been setup for each user.

lxc-attach mail
su - alice
mutt
(send an email to bob@csclub.internal)
exit
su - bob
mutt
(check that alice's email got sent)

Standalone bridge

If you are using a standalone bridge, unfortunately you will not be able to access the container directly from your physical host because it is behind a NAT.

Run the following:

iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -s 192.168.122.0/24 -p tcp --dport 80 -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.100.52

Replace '192.168.122.0/24' by the subnet of your VM (your physical host should also be on this subnet), and replace '192.168.100.52' by the IP of the mail container.

To make sure this iptables rule is applied automatically at startup, you can install the iptables-persistent package:

apt install iptables-persistent

You can use dpkg-reconfigure iptables-persistent if you ever need to change the iptables rules which are applied at startup.

Shared bridge

If you are using a shared bridge, you can access the container directly from your physical host, so no extra steps are required.

Web UI

At some point you will probably want to access the Mailman (2 or 3) web UI.

On your physical host, add the following entry to your /etc/hosts:

192.168.100.52  mailman.csclub.internal

Replace 192.168.100.52 with the IP of the mail container.

Mailman 3

Mailman 3 will already be installed in the container.

You will also want to create a superuser account:

cd /opt/mailman3
su -s /bin/bash www-data
source bin/activate
mailman-web createsuperuser --username bob --email bob@csclub.internal
<enter a password>
exit

The csc-general list will have been created by default. If you want to add any new lists, e.g. syscom:

cd /opt/mailman3
su -s /bin/bash list
source bin/activate
mailman create syscom@csclub.internal

Now open http://mailman.csclub.internal in your browser, login as bob, and start doing things. See the official Mailman 3 documentation and our wiki for information on how to create lists, import lists from Mailman 2, etc. Make sure to send some messages to the lists which you create to verify that everything's working, e.g. subscribe alice and bob to csc-general, send a message from bob to csc-general and make sure alice receives it, etc.

Mailman 2

The playbook will install Mailman 2 but it will be disabled, since the CSC has been using Mailman 3 since April 2021.

If you need to use Mailman 2 for whatever reason (e.g. to test a migration), you will need to edit the Postfix config (specifically, the alias_maps settings in /etc/postfix/main.cf). You will also need to unmask and re-enable mailman.service. See the Mailman 2 playbook, as well as the official documentation for Mailman 2 and Postfix, for more details.

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