Re: Mailman 3 migration status

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On Fri, 13 May 2016 12:41:36 +0200
Aurelien Bompard <abompard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hey there,
> 
> Quick update on the Mailman3 migration. I have now migrated all lists
> to the new mailman01 server (including fedorahosted lists). I've also
> migrated the SpamAssassin configuration and database and it seems to
> be working fine.

Great. ;) 

> I had to make a small tweak to the postfix configuration though, and
> even if I don't think it opens a vulnerability in any way I'm
> pointing you to it: I've opened the submission port (587/tcp) on the
> loopback address only, with a bypass of the SpamAssassin check. The
> reason for that is that Mailman 3 now sends emails to Postfix as an
> SMTP client, and with the previous configuration all outgoing emails
> from Mailman were scanned, which made no sense and caused a huge load
> on the server. I had two options: 1. Set Postfix to listen on
> localhost:smtp without the spam checking and on its external IP with
> the spam checking, but this means hardcoding the server's external IP
> in Postfix' master.cfg file 2. Add another port for Postfix's SMTP
> daemon witout the SpamAssassin content filter, but keep it on
> localhost only for security
> 
> I chose the latter because I felt that harcoding the IP was a worse
> solution, but since we're using Ansible it may not matter. If you
> prefer the first solution I can totally make the change.

I think thats fine. For some reason this change is pending on all
machines tho, need to sort out why it's not mailman/smtp-mm only. 

> My next step is to download the old HTML archives and make them
> available on mailman01 through Apache to preserve existing URLs in
> the wild.

Do we have enough space for that? 

> Then I think we'll finally be able to take the former servers out of
> the loop.

Excellent!

kevin

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