[Mailman-Users] Postfix has problems with Mailman aliases database

[Ralf Hildebrandt]

* malgosia askanas (staff) <askanas at panix.com>:
> > I think you need to use postalias instead of postmap.
> > Like this:
> > 
> > /usr/sbin/postalias /etc/aliases
> > /usr/sbin/postalias /var/chroot/htdocs/mailman/data/aliases
> 
> No, that didn't do it either, I am sad to say.  Postfix reloaded, but I 
> continue to get the same error:
> 
>   Jun  9 14:05:40 polyhedra postfix/smtpd[19750]: fatal: open database /etc/aliases.db: Invalid argument
>   Jun  9 14:05:41 polyhedra postfix/master[301]: warning: process /usr/local/libexec/smtpd pid 19750 exit status 1
>   Jun  9 14:05:41 polyhedra postfix/master[301]: warning: /usr/local/libexec/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttling

Are you sure postmap & smtpd belong together and were linked against
the same libdb? Check with ldd

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