[Mailman-Users] postfix+mailman - User unknowninvirtualmailboxtable

[Mark Sapiro]

J. Bakshi wrote:
>
>Well.. then I am also confused to think what actually solve the issue...
>When I first face the gid problem, I have removed the aliases from
>/etc/aliases and add hash:/var/lib/mailman/data/aliases at the 
>alias section, and not run newaliases any more as suse automatically
>add/remove aliases from /var/lib/mailman/data/aliases; I have come to
>know this from suse doc and also confirm by checking the file.

It is correct that with MTA = 'Postfix' Mailman automatically runs

/usr/sbin/postalias /path/to/data/aliases

whenever aliases are updated,and likewise

/usr/sbin/postmap /path/to/data/virtual-mailman

if there are POSTFIX_STYLE_VIRTUAL_DOMAINS.

However it doesn't update /etc/aliases.db. Thus, if you just removed
Mailman's aliases from /etc/aliases and did not run newaliases or
"postalias /etc/aliases", /etc/aliases.db still had the Mailman
aliases and that was the problem. Then at some point, you did update
/etc/aliases.db and that is what fixed the problem.


>Even after all those steps, I faced the gid issue. And now with
>SMTPHOST = 'localhost', I don't have it any more. So I am also confused
>what solved the issue. Though I am relaxed... the list is working :-)


As I said. I'm glad it's working, but you could remove the SMTPHOST =
'localhost' from mm_cfg.py, and it will continue to work.

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