[Mailman-Users] Postfix virtual domains and mailman

[Mark Sapiro]

Martin Hasselmann wrote:
>
>A former admin has setup Postfix on our servers running with virtual
>domains. As described in here http://workaround.org/articles/ispmail/ he
>configured mailman with alias-maps and virtual maps.
>
>It seems to me that this is an old way of configuring postfix.


You need alias_maps to tell postfix to use
/var/lib/mailman/data/aliases (and /var/lib/mailman/data/aliases.db).


>My question is: Afaik mailman does not need to work with mysql (where
>all virtual emails, mailadress owners etc. are stored in). How can I
>force postfix to lookup not only in the mysql-db, but also in
>/var/lib/mailman/data/aliases? I have no more ideas! I was pretty sure,
>that everything concerning mailman has to be added to postfix's
>main.cf-variable "virtual_maps" because there isn't another variable
>that seemed applicable for me, too.


See <http://www.list.org/mailman-install/node13.html> and
<http://www.list.org/mailman-install/postfix-virtual.html>. You need
virtual_maps with virtual domains. You need alias_maps in any case.

The former admin's configuration was probably what you need. If you
really think there is a better way, this is a Postfix issue and would
better be addressed on a Postfix list.

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