[Mailman-Users] distributing of the mail is not ok

[Stefan Förster]

Am 09.06.2008 um 16:05 schrieb sfantar at snurf.info:

> Stefan Förster wrote:
>>
>> Am 09.06.2008 um 10:16 schrieb sfantar at snurf.info:
>>
>>> I installed mailman. I created a mailing list to test if mailman  
>>> works
>>> fine or not. Well, mailman seems alsmot to work but there is just a
>>> problem.
>>>
>>> Let's assume, I have a mailing list : "test". And the mail used  
>>> for this
>>> mailing list is "test at lists.mydomain.tld", the members have to send
>>> their mails at test at lists.mydomain.tld, sure, this email exists,  
>>> but if
>>> a member sends a mail to this address, the mail sticks with the  
>>> folder
>>> of the email (/var/spool/vmail/lists.mydomain.tld/test/new/), and  
>>> so the
>>> email is not distributed to the list.
>>>
>>> I didn't find a solution, I think this  is a problem with the
>>> configuration... Any ideas?
>>
>>
>> Obviously, you did not configure your MTA (Sendmail, Exim, Postfix)  
>> to
>> forward those mails to Mailman. Instead, the mail is delivered to the
>> correspondent maildir in /var/spool. Mailman integration for various
>> MTAs is described here:
>>
>> http://www.list.org/mailman-install/mail-server.html
>>
>
> Oops, yeah, I've forgotten to configure my MTA. So, it's done, alsmot:
>
> Jun  9 15:50:46 kaduma-hosting postfix/smtpd[28245]: warning: database
> /etc/aliases.db is older than source file /etc/aliase
>
> => "postmap aliases" :
>
> "[...]
> Jun  9 16:01:32 kaduma-hosting postfix/postmap[29980]: warning:  
> aliases,
> line 27: record is in "key: value" format; is this an alias file?
> Jun  9 16:01:32 kaduma-hosting postfix/postmap[29980]: warning:  
> aliases,
> line 30: record is in "key: value" format; is this an alias file?
> Jun  9 16:01:32 kaduma-hosting postfix/postmap[29980]: warning:  
> aliases,
> line 31: record is in "key: value" format; is this an alias file?
> Jun  9 16:01:32 kaduma-hosting postfix/postmap[29980]: warning:  
> aliases,
> line 32: record is in "key: value" format; is this an alias file?
> Jun  9 16:01:32 kaduma-hosting postfix/postmap[29980]: warning:  
> aliases,
> line 33: record is in "key: value" format; is this an alias file?
> [...]"||

The correct command to create a hash file out of a file that is (a)  
listed in Postfix's "alias_database" setting is to execute the command  
"newaliases". "postmap" OTOH doesn't know how to deal with files  
containing "key: value" pairs (note the ":").

> Jun  9 15:50:46 kaduma-hosting postfix/smtpd[28245]: warning:
> dict_nis_init: NIS domain name not set - NIS lookups disabled
> Jun  9 15:50:46 kaduma-hosting postfix/smtpd[28245]: fatal: open
> database /var/lib/mailman/data/virtual-mailman.db: No such file or  
> directory
>
> => I've tried many solutions... but it's not fixed.

For the first warning, try to remove the "nis:mail.aliases" entry in  
"alias_maps". Execute "postconf alias_maps" to see the current  
setting ,then explicitely set it in a way that doesn't include  
"nis:mail.aliases".

For the second warning you obviously have to create the "database"  
file for "/var/lib/mailman/data/virtual-mailman". See below.


> Im my main.cf (for postfix) :
>
> virtual_alias_maps = mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-virtual_aliases.cf,
> mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-virtual_aliases_mailbox.cf,
> hash:/var/lib/mailman/data/aliases
> virtual_mailbox_maps = mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-virtual_mailboxes.cf,
> hash:/var/lib/mailman/data/virtual-mailman

It's just plain wrong to reference "/var/lib/mailman/data/virtual- 
mailman" in virtual_mailbox_maps. Remove it.

Execute "postmap /var/lib/mailman/data/virtual-mailman". Inspect "/var/ 
lib/mailman/data/aliases". If this is an alias file and you need the  
entries, include it in "alias_maps" and "alias_database". Execute  
"newaliases" if needed. If you don't need "/var/lib/mailman/data/ 
aliases", remove any references to it. Restart Postfix.


Cheers
Stefab
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