Mark,
Thank you for your help and for taking the time to answer my questions.
Some questions and answers below next to your responses.
On 12/6/10 9:18 AM, "Mark Sapiro" mark@msapiro.net wrote:
On 12/5/2010 10:22 PM, JRC Groups wrote:
I am posting the output from "sudo postconf -n" in a following post to keep it separate from my answers here for clarity's sake. I tried to find the mm_cfg.py file but couldn't locate it. A spotlight search in OS X returned no entries under this name. Even a spotlight search under mailman returned no entries. Where would this file be located ?
According to the FAQ at http://wiki.list.org/x/QoA9, it should be /usr/share/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py. If it's not there, I don't know where it might be.
I found it. The following are the contents of the /usr/share/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py file I was able to display using the cat command:
# -*- python -*-
# Copyright (C) 1998,1999,2000,2001,2002 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc. # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or # modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License # as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 # of the License, or (at your option) any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software # Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
"""This module contains your site-specific settings.
From a brand new distribution it should be copied to mm_cfg.py. If you already have an mm_cfg.py, be careful to add in only the new settings you want. Mailman's installation procedure will never overwrite your mm_cfg.py file.
The complete set of distributed defaults, with documentation, are in the file Defaults.py. In mm_cfg.py, override only those you want to change, after the
from Defaults import *
line (see below).
Note that these are just default settings; many can be overridden via the administrator and user interfaces on a per-list or per-user basis.
"""
############################################### # Here's where we get the distributed defaults.
from Defaults import *
################################################## # Put YOUR site-specific settings below this line. MTA = 'Postfix' DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'dentserv.main.private' DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'dentserv.main.private'
Did you create the list with Mailman's bin/newlist, Mailman's web interface or Apple's GUI?
I created the list using Apple's GUI and then used Mailman's web interface to configure and change some settings according to the needs of the list I created.
I don't know how Apple's GUI creates lists, but if it created entries for the list in /var/mailman/data/aliases it should also create virtual mappings in /var/mailman/data/virtual-mailman and that file should be referenced in Postfix main.cf virtual_alias_maps, e.g.
virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual_users, hash:/var/mailman/data/virtual-mailman
If virtual-mailman is not created, there is something missing from mm_cfg.py. There should be
POSTFIX_STYLE_VIRTUAL_DOMAINS = ['domain.com']
in mm_cfg.py.
I've tried Apple but it has become quite clear that they are neither properly equipped nor interested in resolving the problems with Mailman (or with OS X Server for that matter).
Can you guide me on how to correct these problems ?
Thank you in advance for your help,
Joe