Thanks for the correction... "MTA='Postfix'" works just fine. However, no change in mailing behaviour after making this change and restarting mailman/postfix. I still can't get messages out beyond the local network.
Note that up to this point, I have put the aliases for mailman lists in /etc/aliases and have only created lists via command-line interface. Also, I observe that there are no data/aliases or data/virtual-mailman files. Do I need to create these? Thanks, Jon Mark Sapiro said: > Jon Loose wrote: >> >>However, I now find that sending a message to the list >>on domain2 leads to copies being sent out to a local >>user, but not to any users outside my network. This >>looks like an MTA issue, and so I'm sure I should have >>fixed things slightly differently in postfix. Further >>comments below: > > > This sounds like Postfix thinks that domain2 is not local and it is > refusing to relay from domain2 to the outside. > > >>> I'm not really familiar with Postfix, but see >>> >><http://www.list.org/mailman-install/postfix-virtual.html> >>and the >>> other material in that section of the manual. >> >>The trouble is, this is the documentation I don't >>understand! Can anyone help? Specifically, having >>set up domain2 as a virtual domain in postfix, what do >>I need to do to allow mailman to use this? I suspect >>the /etc/postfix/virtual will need editing (do aliases >>need moving from /etc/aliases for this?) but am not >>sure. > > > This has to do primarily with setting up Postfix so that incoming mail > to the various list and list-* addresses at domain1 and domain2 are > all properly delivered to Mailman. > > I don't think anything special needs to be done to accommodate outgoing > mail from Mailman as long as both domain1 and domain2 can send mail at > all. > > >>> MTA = Postfix > <snip> >>> >>Got it... FYI, the "MTA=Postfix" threw up an error, >>but all went well without this line. > > > My fault. It needs to be > > MTA = 'Postfix' > > So that bin/genaliases and list creation and deletion can automatically > update the Mailman aliases and virtual maps files for Postfix. > > > Mailman creates/updates the data/aliases and data/virtual-mailman files > and the postalias and postmap commands update the corresponding .db > files. > > The aliases and virtual-mailman files are referenced in the Postfix > configuration in alias_maps and virtual_alias_maps as shown in the > manual. > ___________________________________________________________ To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yahoo! Security Centre. http://uk.security.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp