[Mailman-Developers] Postfix instructions in 2.0.10's INSTALL

[bob@nleaudio.com]

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Actually, alias_database only appears to affect the "newaliases" command, and 
really isn't needed for what Mailman is doing, as I believe Mailman is using the 
"postalias" command to create the .db file, isn't it?

Bob

>
>> On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 03:52:37PM -0700, Dan Mick wrote:
>> > What is this supposed to do?  "postalias <a private alias file>"
>> > appears to simply create an alias.dir/alias.pag pair in that
>> > same directory, but not affect the Postfix delivery at all.
>> > Is this a Postfix version skew problem?  Is it expected
>> > that postalias actually "installs" the aliases somehow?
>> > It doesn't seem like that's the case.
>> 
>> You have to setup your /etc/postfix/main.cf like this:
>> 
>> alias_maps =    dbm:/etc/postfix/aliases,
>>                 dbm:/usr/local/mailman/aliases.mailman
>> 
>> alias_database =        dbm:/etc/postfix/aliases,
>>                         dbm:/usr/local/mailman/aliases.mailman
>> 
>> Then, I just do "postalias aliases.mailman" when I change 
>> ~mailman/aliases.mailman
>
>Well, that makes sense, but without that extra bit of "alias_maps"
>configuration, the Problem/Solution as written doesn't make
>much sense.
>
>I'm sure it's fixed for 2.1 with the README.POSTFIX file, but 2.0.10
>users are rightfully confused by that entry.
>
>Also, INSTALL in 2.1 has that partially-useful Problem/Solution
>entry; even though it has been updated to point to README.POSTFIX,
>it probably shouldn't come off like it solves that problem.
>
>
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