[Mailman-Users] Postfix has problems with Mailman aliases database

[Kevin W. Gagel]

You haven't run the postmap command to generate the alias database.
Use the following:
postmap hash:/etc/aliases
postmap hash:/var/chroot/htdocs/mailman/data/aliases


----- Original Message Follows -----
From: "malgosia askanas (staff)" <askanas at panix.com>
To: mailman-users at python.org
Subject: [Mailman-Users] Postfix has problems with Mailman aliases database
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 12:59:30 -0400 (EDT)
> 
> I am installing Mailman on a machine running Postfix. I put in Postfix's 
> configuration file the statement
> 
> alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases, hash:/var/chroot/htdocs/mailman/data/aliases
> 
> and ran Mailman's "genaliases" command to generate the alias database (which
> now contains aliases for 2 lists).  But it looks like my Postfix is choking on
> Mailman's aliases.  I get a steady stream of the following complaints in the
> maillog:
> 
> Jun  9 12:45:20 polyhedra postfix/smtpd[16195]: fatal: open database
> /var/chroot/htdocs/mailman/data/aliases.db: Invalid argument Jun  9 12:45:21
> polyhedra postfix/master[301]: warning: process /usr/local/libexec/smtpd pid
> 16195 exit status 1 Jun  9 12:45:21 polyhedra postfix/master[301]: warning:
> /usr/local/libexec/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttling
> 
> Does anybody have any advice, please?  I notice the following seeming mismatch
> , but I don't know if it's relevant:
> 
> For the Postfix aliases database:
> # file /etc/aliases.db
> /etc/aliases.db: Berkeley DB (Hash, version 7, native byte-order)
> 
> For the Mailman aliases database:
> # file /var/chroot/htdocs/mailman/data/aliases.db
> /var/chroot/htdocs/mailman/data/aliases.db: Berkeley DB 1.85 (Hash, version 2,
> native byte-order)
> 
> 
> Many thanks in advance,
> 
> -malgosia
> 
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