Re: [Mailman-Users] Help with Mailman and Sendmail

David Abrahams wrote:

Heh, and even if I do that, I don't end up with a /usr/local/sbin/mailman.aliases.

You have to create /usr/local/sbin/mailman.aliases with execute permission and containing

/bin/cp /usr/local/mailman/data/aliases /etc/mailman.aliases /usr/bin/newaliases

It seems like something needs to tell newaliases about /etc/mailman.aliases, and the only thing I see in the instructions that could do it is a later step:

It is the

POSTFIX_ALIAS_CMD = '/usr/bin/sudo /usr/local/sbin/mailman.aliases'

That tells the process to run that file in order to update system aliases from the /usr/local/mailman/data/aliases that the process creates/updates.

3. We have to tell sendmail about the new alias file.

in /etc/mail/sendmail.mc find this line: define(ALIAS_FILE', /etc/aliases')dnl and change it to: define(ALIAS_FILE', /etc/aliases,/etc/mailman.aliases')dnl Run a make (or otherwise refresh sendmail.cf and then restart sendmail

Now when we run newaliases, it will rebuild both alias files.

Am I missing something? I feel like I'm groping around in the dark here.

Here's what happens:

1. You create /usr/local/sbin/mailman.aliases with execute permission and containing

/bin/cp /usr/local/mailman/data/aliases /etc/mailman.aliases /usr/bin/newaliases

This will actually be run later.

2. You put in mm_cfg.py

MTA='Postfix' POSTFIX_ALIAS_CMD = '/usr/bin/sudo /usr/local/sbin/mailman.aliases'

What this does is it tells Mailman's bin/genaliases and list creation/deletion processes to run Mailman/MTA/Postfix.py as part of the process to deal with aliases. This in turn updates data/aliases (a fixed file name) and then invokes POSTFIX_ALIAS_CMD to update the system aliases. That command runs the script in /usr/local/sbin/mailman.aliases (as root) to copy the aliases to /etc/mailman.aliases (This is necessary because of point 1. in the post at <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2004-June/037518.html>) and run /usr/bin/newaliases to update Sendmail's database.

Now Mailman aliases are being automatically maintained in /etc/mailman.aliases, but none of this actually happens until step 5. of the above post's instructions.

3. You add /etc/mailman.aliases to Sendmail's configuration so Sendmail will use that file.

You do the other steps as outlined in the post.

Does this help?

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