[Mailman-Users] Postfix has problems with Mailman aliases database

I am installing Mailman on a machine running Postfix. I put in Postfix's configuration file the statement alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases, hash:/var/chroot/htdocs/mailman/data/aliases and ran Mailman's "genaliases" command to generate the alias database (which now contains aliases for 2 lists).

Re: [Mailman-Users] Postfix has problems with Mailman aliases database

> You haven't run the postmap command to generate the alias database. > Use the following: > postmap hash:/etc/aliases > postmap hash:/var/chroot/htdocs/mailman/data/aliases I am sorry to say that this didn't change my situation. I did as you suggested and then did a postfix reload, but I still g

Re: [Mailman-Users] Postfix has problems with Mailman aliases database

> I think you need to use postalias instead of postmap. > Like this: > > /usr/sbin/postalias /etc/aliases > /usr/sbin/postalias /var/chroot/htdocs/mailman/data/aliases No, that didn't do it either, I am sad to say. Postfix reloaded, but I continue to get the same error: Jun 9 14:05:40 polyh

Re: [Mailman-Users] Postfix has problems with Mailman aliases database

> Are you sure postmap & smtpd belong together and were linked against > the same libdb? Check with ldd Yup, they were both linked against /usr/lib/libc.so.12. > Could this be a permission problem? > When you run postalias are you root -- or somebody who can write in /etc ? Well, when I run it I

Re: [Mailman-Users] Postfix has problems with Mailman aliases database

> On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 02:40:23PM -0400, malgosia askanas (staff) wrote: > > > Are you sure postmap & smtpd belong together and were linked against > > > the same libdb? Check with ldd > > > > Yup, they were both linked against /usr/lib/libc.so.12. &

Re: [Mailman-Users] Admin commands via email

Brad Knowles wrote: >> Hope that helps to explain why an administrative email interface can >> be useful. > There's no question that an e-mail interface can be useful. The > value of this was recognized a long time ago. Mailman does already > include an e-mail interface. I am sorry if I am

Re: [Mailman-Users] Admin commands via email

Brad wrote: > There is some information for users at > . I'm still looking > for the comparable information for mailing list administrators, but > it looks like this part of the documentation may be lacking. > > Here's an opportunity

Re: [Mailman-Users] Admin commands via email

> Therein lies the problem. You'd probably need to be able to read > the Python code well enough to figure out what it does. ;( All right, I may be able to do that. But where is the Python code for the administrative commands? It's not in $prefix/Mailman/Commands, is it? At least I don

Re: [Mailman-Users] Admin commands via email

Jeff Barger wrote: > > I am sorry if I am being really dense; but what _is_ the > > administrative email > > interface to Mailman? For example, how _can_ a list administrator > > unsub > > a bunch of listmembers via email? I cannot for the world of me find > > any > > documentation on this. >

[Mailman-Users] Conversion considerations?

As I mentioned yesterday, our company is in the process of contemplating the conversion of our listserver from majordomo to Mailman. We currently host about 550 lists. The largest list has about 77,000 members; the second largest, about 33,000 members. There are about 1000 messages sent to