[Mailman-Users] Exim and beta5 -- Solved and Suggestion

[Derry Goberdhansingh]

Nm, I got it figured out. Stupid me didn't RTFM for exim and piped aliases.

I know this might be a pain, but could the maintainers of the put in a
simple README.EXIM and just have about 2-3 lines telling the users to edit
their exim.conf file under the Directors Configuration set the user to
*mail* and uncomment the line.

eg

######################################################################
#                      DIRECTORS CONFIGURATION                       #
#             Specifies how local addresses are handled              #
######################################################################
#                          ORDER DOES MATTER                         #
#   A local address is passed to each in turn until it is accepted.  #
######################################################################

<snip>

system_aliases:
  driver = aliasfile
  file_transport = address_file
  pipe_transport = address_pipe
  file = /etc/aliases
  search_type = lsearch
  user = mail


Just a suggestion to ease the reading of the extra docs. Yeah I know I'm
lazy =)

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Dale" <bug at aphid.net>
To: <mailman-users at python.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 1:32 AM
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Exim and beta5


> Please post some logs (perhaps mailman/logs/error|post,
> /var/log/mail.err|log).
>
> Are the corn jobs installed?
>
> Chuck
>
> Wrote Derry Goberdhansingh on Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 01:30:14AM -0400:
> > Well I installed Mailman on my debian box, which is running Exim with a
mail
> > GID of 8 <-- mail user and group.
> >  I did a ./configure --with-mail-gid=8 and installed everything, I
created a
> > test list and added the aliases to the /etc/aliases file. I sent a
message
> > to the test list, that's where the problem comes in.... I don't get any
mail
> > from it. I've got two other accounts, seperate from the admin and I
tried
> > sending mail from both of them, but I still get a message from the list.
> >
> > Can someone please tell me what I'm possibly doing wrong? I did a cat
> > /etc/group and /etc/passwd to find out the mail GID, which turned out to
be
> > 8, with a UID of mail. I do have  FQDN so that's not the problem, I just
> > copied the aliases directly from what the newlist command gave me. So
that's
> > correct.
> >
> > Please help if you can.
> >
> >
> > =====================
> > I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather.. Not screaming and crying
> > like the passengers in his car.
> > =====================
> >
> >
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