[Mailman-Users] Exim/Mailman Alias problem ?

[claw at kanga.nu]

On Fri, 3 Dec 1999 01:57:29 +0000 
Kirth  <kirth at hole.org> wrote:

> Hi, I followed the install doc, and the details on
> www.exim.org/howto/mailman.html but I have hit a problem.  I think
> exim is ignoring /etc/aliases becuase every time I try to add a
> list I get this in exim_reject log

Do you have mail.i-docs.org listed in exim.conf under
primary_hostname or local_domains?

> in /etc/aliases I have mailman: kirth at i-docs.org mailman-owner:
> mailman

I use the following stanzas under Exim for MailMan:

Transport: 

  mailman_list_pipe:
    driver = pipe
    allow_commands = /var/lib/mailman/mail/wrapper
    user = list
    group = mail
    return_fail_output

Director:

  mailman_lists:
    driver = aliasfile
    search_type = lsearch
    file = /var/lib/mailman/data/aliases
    pipe_transport = mailman_list_pipe
    modemask = 111

(Note that this is built atopt Debian's default install, and so uses
the "list" UID rather than "mailman", tho ~list == /var/lib/mailman.
This allows me to keep all the list aliases under ~list/data/aliases
(and under RCS), rather than muddled into the general /etc/aliases.

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