[Mailman-Users] question about mail-gid

[Mark Sapiro]

Christopher Adams wrote:

>Yep, it's Postfix.  Yep, there are two different files.
>
>/etc/postfix/aliases is owned by root.root
>/etc/postfix/aliases.db is owned by root.root


Since Postfix won't run pipes as root, pipe aliases found in these
files will be run as group 'nobody'.


>/usr/local/mailman/data/aliases is owned by root.mailman
>/usr/local/mailman/data/aliases is owned by mailman.mailman


And pipe aliases found in these files will run as group mailman.


If you have

MTA = 'Postfix'

Mailman will automatically maintain the aliases in
/usr/local/mailman/data/aliases* as you create and delete lists. You
will not need, nor should you have any Mailman aliases in
/etc/postfix/aliases*.

If all your Mailman aliases are in /usr/local/mailman/data/aliases*
with the current ownership, you won't have any further mail group
mismatch problems.

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