[Mailman-Users] Re: Help please - Postfix and Mailman

2003-11-24 Thread gagel
Tom,

- Original Message Follows -
> You have:
> 
> local_recipient_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/users
> 
> Does /etc/postfix/users contain "test"?

got me searching and found the problem. I was missing the $alias_maps
for the local_recipient_maps. 

Problem is resolved.


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Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Help please - Postfix and Mailman

2003-11-24 Thread Simon White
24-Nov-03 at 10:21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote :
> No, mailman is using the same principle as majordomo they both use
> aliases to "insert" themselves into postfix. Postfix is not
> recognising my aliases even though the entries are there...

Hi there,

Can you post the output from the following:

# postconf | grep alias
# postconf | grep local

and the path to your aliases file that Mailman generates (usually in the
data subdirectory)

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[Mailman-Users] Re: Help please - Postfix and Mailman

2003-11-24 Thread gagel



- Original Message Follows -
> On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 10:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Tom,
> > Typo on my part, I double checked and the line is using the pipe
> > not the colon.
> > 
> > 
> > - Original Message Follows -
> > > On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 09:50, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > > I'm having trouble getting Postfix to recognize my Mailman
> > > > aliases. Clearly something is wrong in my configuration but I
> > > > can't figure out what it is. With a single list called "test"
> > > > I can't send anything to it, I can't subscribe because the
> > > > confirmation is rejected with a "User unknown in local
> > > > recipient table (from avas.cnc.bc.ca:" error. It seems to me
> > > > that Postfix is ignoring the alias databases. 
> > > > A postalias -q for test shows:
> > > > ":/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post test"
> > >^
> > > Should be "|" rather than ":".
> > > 
> > > Example:
> > > 
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] shorewall]# postalias -q test
> > > /var/mailman/Mailman/aliases "|/var/mailman/mail/mailman post
> > > test" [EMAIL PROTECTED] shorewall]# 
> > > 
> 
> You have:
> 
> local_recipient_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/users
> 
> Does /etc/postfix/users contain "test"?
> 
> -Tom

No, mailman is using the same principle as majordomo they both use
aliases to "insert" themselves into postfix. Postfix is not
recognising my aliases even though the entries are there...


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