Hello,
I have just installed anc configured mailman on our mail server, and it
seems to be working perfectly.
I added the system aliases into /etc/aliases and configured exim as per
the documentation on the mailman web site. I configured it in such a way
that exim didn't need to know about new mailing lists.
However, even though mailman is handling mailing lists successfully without
them being in /etc/aliases, every time I create a new list, I get the
following email:
==
The mailing list `it' has been created via the through-the-web
interface. In order to complete the activation of this mailing list, the
proper /etc/aliases (or equivalent) file must be updated. The program
`newaliases' may also have to be run.
Here are the entries for the /etc/aliases file:
it: |/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post it
it-admin:|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman admin it
it-bounces: |/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman bounces it
it-confirm: |/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman confirm it
it-join: |/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman join it
it-leave:|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman leave it
it-owner:|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman owner it
it-request: |/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman request it
it-subscribe:|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman subscribe it
it-unsubscribe: |/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman unsubscribe it
==
Is there a way I can tell mailman that this doesn't actually have to be
done, so it can stop reminding me, or will we continue to get these emails
regardless?
Or... Do I actually *need* to add the stuff above into /etc/aliases? There
is currently no mention of an 'it' mailing list on /etc/aliases at the
moment, and mailman is processing mail for it perfectly, but if this just
luck?
Below are the two sections which I added to /etc/exim4/exim4.conf:
==
# Mailman stuff
# Home dir for your Mailman installation -- aka Mailman's prefix
# directory.
MAILMAN_HOME=/var/lib/mailman
MAILMAN_WRAP=MAILMAN_HOME/mail/wrapper
# User and group for Mailman, should match your --with-mail-gid
# switch to Mailman's configure script.
MAILMAN_USER=list
MAILMAN_GROUP=list
# End of Mailman stuff
==
==
# Mailman stuff
mailman_router:
driver = accept
require_files = MAILMAN_HOME/lists/$local_part/config.pck
local_part_suffix_optional
local_part_suffix = -bounces : -bounces+* : \
-confirm+* : -join : -leave : \
-owner : -request : -admin
transport = mailman_transport
# End of Mailman stuff
==
Does anyone know why this is happening? I guess mailman doesn't know that
exim is configured to not care about new lists, but is there a way to tell
it?
Thanks in advance to anyone who can help :-)
Richard Hobbs.
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