"OT" == Owen Taylor otaylor@redhat.com writes:
OT> Well, you can't lose the aliases file, but you can make it
OT> pretty darn invisible.
>> From postfix's main.cf:
OT> alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases,hash:/home/mailman/aliasesI do this.
OT> And the following patch automatically updates the file.A couple of notes. First, the version of newlist that's going to be in rc3 (some time today) has a -o/--output switch that does the appending to a specified file, somewhat like the way your patch does (although the file name is taken from the command line and a few other minor differences).
But the real problem is a permissions problem. Say you run postalias
as yourself, because you installed Mailman. Or say you installed it
as user mailman', and that's the user you run postalias as. Then the resulting aliases.db file will be owned by you (or mailman') and
Postfix will try to deliver email destined for those addresses as your
(or mailman's) gid, but not as the gid you compiled into the wrapper
script.
Thus I found that I had to run newaliases (a.k.a. postalias) as root for the gids to be correct.
Not an insurmountable problem, but it's a pain. It would be nice if Postfix could be configured to automatically run newaliases if necessary (maybe there already is such an option?).
-Barry