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Greetings.
It's been a while since I've had an issue, mostly because mailman just works. (and thank you for that)
We're running old - SciLin 7.9 / Mailman 2.1.20, but are upgrading out of necessity. We've chosen RHEL 8.7 and Mailman 2.1.39
All installed, created a new list... and stopped. Not sure what I missed, but in 2.1.20, after a newlist is created, we get a block of all the required aliases to put in the /etc alias file - similar to (for example) -
##jeffslist mailing list
jeffslist: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post jeffslist" jeffslist-admin: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman admin jeffslist" jeffslist-bounces: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman bounces jeffslist" jeffslist-confirm: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman confirm jeffslist" jeffslist-join: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman join jeffslist" jeffslist-leave: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman leave jeffslist" jeffslist-owner: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman owner jeffslist" jeffslist-request: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman request jeffslist" jeffslist-subscribe: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman subscribe jeffslist" jeffslist-unsubscribe: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman unsubscribe jeffslist"
We then run 'newalises' and move along.
This block did not appear, and it's been over a decade since I built the old one. I don't remember doing anything special to get the new alias information, so I'm blindly assuming - something changed?
How do I get this information now? I can't seen any difference in the scripts.
thank you - Jeff W
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On 2023-05-05 2:57 PM, Jeffrey Westgate wrote:
All installed, created a new list... and stopped. Not sure what I missed, but in 2.1.20, after a newlist is created, we get a block of all the required aliases to put in the /etc alias file
Back in centos 7 + postfix we'd have them in a separate file (mailman.aliases? -- something like that) that needed to be included in postfix config.
No idea what they did in RH8 though.
Dima
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On 5/5/23 12:57, Jeffrey Westgate wrote:
All installed, created a new list... and stopped. Not sure what I missed, but in 2.1.20, after a newlist is created, we get a block of all the required aliases to put in the /etc alias file - similar to (for example) -
Did you perhaps set MTA to something other than 'Manual' in mm_cfg.py?
The Defaults.py setting is MTA = 'Manual'
. See
https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mailman-coders/mailman/2.1/view/head:/Mailman/...
Any value other than 'Manual' will not print aliases. 'Postfix' will write them to a file in Mailman's data/ directory and anything else will do nothing. Mailman's bin/genaliases will report a bad setting.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
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On 2023-05-05 2:57 PM, Jeffrey Westgate wrote:
All installed, created a new list... and stopped. Not sure what I missed, but in 2.1.20, after a newlist is created, we get a block of all the required aliases to put in the /etc alias file
Back in centos 7 + postfix we'd have them in a separate file (mailman.aliases? -- something like that) that needed to be included in postfix config.
No idea what they did in RH8 though.
Dima
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On 5/5/23 12:57, Jeffrey Westgate wrote:
All installed, created a new list... and stopped. Not sure what I missed, but in 2.1.20, after a newlist is created, we get a block of all the required aliases to put in the /etc alias file - similar to (for example) -
Did you perhaps set MTA to something other than 'Manual' in mm_cfg.py?
The Defaults.py setting is MTA = 'Manual'
. See
https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mailman-coders/mailman/2.1/view/head:/Mailman/...
Any value other than 'Manual' will not print aliases. 'Postfix' will write them to a file in Mailman's data/ directory and anything else will do nothing. Mailman's bin/genaliases will report a bad setting.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
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