[Mailman-Users] Mailman + Postfix won't work

[Christian Schoepplein]

Hi!

On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 05:00:08PM -0500, José Zapata wrote:
> I'm currently using Mailman with Sendmail. After investigating a bit, 
> I heard using Postfix would be better for performance (I have a 45000+ 
> news list, announce only, with one message per day which is 70-90k in 
> size). My server came with Postfix preinstalled, so I stopped sendmail 
> and started Postfix. 

Good decision ;-).

> After reconfiguring Mailman with the correct 
> user, tried testing the lists. They don't seem to work at all. Every 
> message I send to the list or the list owner seem to dissapear. The 
> aliases are correctly set up, and Postfix is working fine as far as I 
> can tell. 

Does postfix know about your mailman aliases? You can integrate the 
mailman aliases file into postfix, by adding the path to this file to 
the alias_maps entry:

alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases,
             hash:/var/lib/mailman/data/aliases

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Regards,
Christian Schoepplein <chris at schoeppi.net>

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