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@@ -4,7 +4,17 @@ A mailing list management system.
 
 > https://docs.mailman3.org
 
-This configuration is intended to be used with [mailu](https://git.autonomic.zone/coop-cloud/mailu), assumes the use of a postfix MTA and requires that you share networks and volumes between your Mailu stack and your Mailman3 stack. After installation, you need to run `manage.py createsuperuser` against your `mailman-web` container to create an admin account.
+This configuration is intended to be used with a [mailu](https://git.autonomic.zone/coop-cloud/mailu) instance which is setup **on the same VPS**.
+
+This configuration assumes the following:
+
+- you have a correctly configured mailu instance (e.g. `mail.example.com`)
+- you have a relay domain setup on your mailu side which relays mails (e.g. `lists.example.com`)
+- you have an MX and an SPF record setup on your `lists.example.com` for incoming mail
+- you have overlay networks configured for both your mailu and mailman stacks (see `SMTP_HOST` and `SMTP_NETWORK` in the [.env.sample](./.env.sample) on the mailman side and `MAILMAN_CORE_NETWORK` [in the mailu config](https://git.autonomic.zone/coop-cloud/mailu/src/branch/main/.env.sample) on the mailu side)
+- you have a shared volume between your mailman and mailu stack which exposes the mailman generated aliases which can be fed into an postfix override on the mailu side (see `MAILMAN_CORE_VOLUME` [in the mailu config](https://git.autonomic.zone/coop-cloud/mailu/src/branch/main/.env.sample) on the mailu side)
+
+More documentation coming after we recover from the diabolical hacking required to get this working.
 
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