--On Wednesday, January 1, 2003 2:06 PM -0600 Gary Frederick <gary.frederick@jsoft.com> wrote:

I'm trying to help someone set up a Mailman list. He has Debian, Mailman version: 2.0.13-2 and Postfix's version: 1.1.11-2.

He looked over the web and the archives here and is stuck.

The problem:

...

After running newlist, I added the following to Postfix's alias table using postalias:

icare: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/wrapper post icare" icare-admin: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner icare" icare-request: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd icare" icare-owner: icare-admin

I checked in the MySQL alias table and the entries were added properly.

I ran newaliases like the FAQs recommend, yet Postfix still complains when any of the above aliases are used:

Dec 31 13:06:24 pavia postfix/smtpd[30397]: reject: RCPT from f40.pav1.hotmail.com[64.4.31.40]: 550 <icare@hishost.net>: User unknown; from=<user@hotmail.com> to=<icare@hishost.net>

Dec 31 15:15:17 pavia postfix/smtpd[1493]: reject: RCPT from smtpout.ev1.net[207.44.129.133]: 550 <icare-request@hishost.net>: User unknown; from=<user@ev1.net> to=<icare-request@hishost.net>

I'm running Mailman 2.0.13 but using sendmail and can't help with Postfix. Any clues?

To which I reply:

I can't remember for sure if this is required, but did you restart Postfix after adding the aliases?

                                         -- Steve

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