[Mailman-Users] Re: Help please - Postfix and Mailman

[gagel at cnc.bc.ca]

----- Original Message Follows -----
> On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 10:03, gagel at cnc.bc.ca wrote:
> > Tom,
> > Typo on my part, I double checked and the line is using the pipe
> > not the colon.
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message Follows -----
> > > On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 09:50, gagel at cnc.bc.ca wrote:
> > > > I'm having trouble getting Postfix to recognize my Mailman
> > > > aliases. Clearly something is wrong in my configuration but I
> > > > can't figure out what it is. With a single list called "test"
> > > > I can't send anything to it, I can't subscribe because the
> > > > confirmation is rejected with a "User unknown in local
> > > > recipient table (from avas.cnc.bc.ca:" error. It seems to me
> > > > that Postfix is ignoring the alias databases. 
> > > > A postalias -q for test shows:
> > > > ":/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post test"
> > >    ^
> > > Should be "|" rather than ":".
> > > 
> > > Example:
> > > 
> > > [root at lists shorewall]# postalias -q test
> > > /var/mailman/Mailman/aliases "|/var/mailman/mail/mailman post
> > > test" [root at lists shorewall]# 
> > > 
> 
> You have:
> 
>     local_recipient_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/users
> 
> Does /etc/postfix/users contain "test"?
> 
> -Tom

No, mailman is using the same principle as majordomo they both use
aliases to "insert" themselves into postfix. Postfix is not
recognising my aliases even though the entries are there...

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Kevin W. Gagel
Network Administrator
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