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Let's install a mailinglist manager. We chose Mailman because it's robust, scalable and easy to administrate. Mailman has a webinterface for list members, administrators and access to the list archives. The Mailman application is built on Python.

First install the software:

apt-get install apache2 mailman

Create a default mailinglist:

newlist mailman

Generate the necessary aliases for Postfix:

/usr/lib/mailman/bin/genaliases

Copy the output of genaliases to /etc/aliases, run newaliases and reload the mailserver:

newaliases
/etc/init.d/postfix reload

Configure the webserver to facilitate the webinterface and list archives:

Create a file /etc/apache2/sites-available/mailman with this content:

ScriptAlias /mailman/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/
<Directory /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/>
   Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
   AllowOverride None
   Order allow,deny
   allow from all
</Directory>
 
Alias /pipermail/ /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/
<Directory /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/>
   AddDefaultCharset Off
   Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
   AllowOverride None
   Order allow,deny
   allow from all
</Directory>

Don't forget to enable the configuration changes:

a2ensite mailman
/etc/init.d/apache2 force-reload

Create a mailinglist manager site password:

/usr/lib/mailman/bin/mmsitepass

Restart mailman:

/etc/init.d/mailman restart

You should now be able to see the webinterface at http://yourhost/mailman/listinfo