Mailman3 Core Docker Image

When you spawn off this container, you must mount /opt/mailman to the container. Mailman's var directory will also be stored here so that it can persist across different sessions and containers. Any configuration at /opt/mailman/mailman-extra.cfg will be added to the mailman's default generated confifguration (See below).

It is not advised to run multiple mailman processes on the same host sharing the same /opt/mailman (/opt/mailman/core on the host) directory as this will almost certainly be dangerous.

Configuration

These are the variables that you MUST change before deploying:

HYPERKITT_API_KEY: Hyperkitty's API Key, should be set to the same value as set for the mailman-core.
DATABASE_URL: URL of the type driver://user:password@hostname:port/databasename for the django to use. If not set, the default is set to sqlite:///opt/mailman-web-data/mailmanweb.db. The standard docker-compose.yaml comes with it set to a postgres database. It is not must to change this if you are happy with postgresql.
DATABASE_TYPE: It's value can be one of sqlite, postgres or mysql as these are the only three database types that Mailman 3 supports. It's defualt value is set to sqlite along with the default database class and default database url above.
DATABASE_CLASS: Default value is mailman.database.sqlite.SQLiteDatabase. The values for this can be found in the mailman's documentation [here][11].

These are the variables that you don't need to change if you are using a standard version of docker-compose.yaml from this repository.

MM_HOSTNAME: Default value is mailman-core
SMTP_HOST: IP Address/hostname from which you will be sending emails. Default value is 172.19.199.1, which is the address of the Host OS.
SMTP_PORT: Port used for SMTP. Default is 25.
HYPERKITTY_API_URL: Default value is http://mailman-web:8000/hyperkitty

Running Mailman-Core

It is highly recomended that you run this image along with the docker-compose.yaml file provided at the github repo of this image. However, it is possibel to run this image as a standalone container if you want just a mailman-core.

$ mkdir -p /opt/mailman/core
$ docker run -it -e "HYPERKITTY_API_KEY=changeme" -h mailman-core -v /opt/mailman/core:/opt/mailman mailman-core

However, if you don't provide the environment DATABASE_URL, the database may not be persistant. All the configuration options are explained in more detail.

If you need mode advanced configuration for mailman, you can create /opt/mailman/mailman.cfg and it be added to the configuration inside the container. Note that, anything inside this configuration will override the settings provided via the environment variables and their default values.

By default, the following settings are generated:

# mailman.cfg
[mta]
incoming: mailman.mta.exim4.LMTP
outgoing: mailman.mta.deliver.deliver
lmtp_host: $MM_HOSTNAME
lmtp_port: 8024
smtp_host: $SMTP_HOST
smtp_port: $SMTP_PORT
configuration: python:mailman.config.exim4

[runner.retry]
sleep_time: 10s

[webservice]
hostname: $MM_HOSTNAME

[archiver.hyperkitty]
class: mailman_hyperkitty.Archiver
enable: yes
configuration: /config/mailman-hyperkitty.cfg

[database]
class: $DATABASE_CLASS
url: $DATABASE_URL

# mailman-hyperkitty.cfg
[general]
base_url: $HYPERKITTY_URL
api_key: $HYPERKITTY_API_KEY

MTA

Exim4 is the recommended MTA for this image. The recommended configuration to run exim for this image can be found on github repository.