[Mailman-Users] Can't send email to non-local recipients

Larry Zins larry.zins at gmail.com
Sun Dec 30 07:03:49 CET 2007


Hi, I've been trying for days now to get a test mailman list to work.  When
I send an email to the list "larry-test at mydomain.tld", only users that have
an unix account on the server itself receive the email.  I've searched and
tried the examples in the READMEs that came with the distribution,
main.cf.default, the internet, and nothing works.  I've got amavisd-new
working with SASL, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, and Dovecot, SquirrelMail, but I
can't get Mailman to work.

I'm using Postfix 2.3.3-2 and Mailman 2.1.9-2.

This is the current config that does'nt work:

In /etc/aliases:

## larry mailing list
larry-test:              "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post larry-test"
larry-test-admin:        "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman admin larry-test"
larry-test-bounces:      "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman bounces larry-test"
2.1.9-2
larry-test-confirm:      "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman confirm larry-test"
larry-test-join:         "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman join larry-test"
larry-test-leave:        "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman leave larry-test"
larry-test-owner:        "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman owner larry-test"
larry-test-request:      "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman request larry-test"
larry-test-subscribe:    "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman subscribe
larry-test"
larry-test-unsubscribe:  "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman unsubscribe
larry-test"


In /etc/postfix/main.cf:

mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, localhost, mydomain.tld,
fully-qualified hostname
local_recipient_maps =
virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual


In /etc/postfix/virtual:

larry-test at create.ucsb.edu              larry-test
larry-test-admin at create.ucsb.edu        larry-test-admin
larry-test-bounces at create.ucsb.edu      larry-test-bounces
larry-test-confirm at create.ucsb.edu      larry-test-confirm
larry-test-join at create.ucsb.edu         larry-test-join
larry-test-leave at create.ucsb.edu        larry-test-leave
larry-test-owner at create.ucsb.edu        larry-test-owner
larry-test-request at create.ucsb.edu      larry-test-request
larry-test-subscribe at create.ucsb.edu    larry-test-subscribe
larry-test-unsubscribe at create.ucsb.edu  larry-test-unsubscribe

And the errors:

Dec 29 21:43:10 sonic postfix/trivial-rewrite[21282]: fatal: open database
/etc/postfix/virtual.db: No such file or directory
Dec 29 21:43:10 sonic postfix/smtpd[21281]: fatal: open database
/etc/postfix/virtual.db: No such file or directory
Dec 29 21:43:11 sonic postfix/master[21166]: warning: process
/usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd pid 21281 exit status 1
Dec 29 21:43:11 sonic postfix/master[21166]: warning:
/usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttling
Dec 29 21:43:11 sonic postfix/master[21166]: warning: process
/usr/libexec/postfix/trivial-rewrite pid 21282 exit status 1
Dec 29 21:43:11 sonic postfix/master[21166]: warning:
/usr/libexec/postfix/trivial-rewrite: bad command startup -- throttling

Thanks for any tips.

Larry


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