[Mailman-Users] Problem with aliases

[Steve Burling]

--On Wednesday, January 1, 2003 2:06 PM -0600 Gary Frederick 
<gary.frederick at 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 at hishost.net>: User
>  > unknown;
>  > from=<user at hotmail.com> to=<icare at hishost.net>
>  >
>  > Dec 31 15:15:17 pavia postfix/smtpd[1493]: reject: RCPT from
>  > smtpout.ev1.net[207.44.129.133]: 550 <icare-request at hishost.net>: User
>  > unknown; from=<user at ev1.net> to=<icare-request at 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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