[Mailman-Users] Question re: creating new lists from the GUI

[Mark Sapiro]

Simon wrote:
>
>I have just upgraded mailman from 2.1.9 to 2.1.11 and everything is 
>working fine as far as existing lists is concerned.
>
>This issue has to do with creating new lists from the GUI. I created a 
>list and was able to log into its admin interface and manage the config 
>without any apparent problems.
>
>But when I send a test message to the list, I get an error 'user unknown 
>in virtual mailbox table' (yes I'm using postfix)...
>
>Obviously the mailman aliases are not getting generated, but I'm not 
>sure where to look to fix it... I've googled for a while now, but 
>haven't managed to find the magic keywords to find the answer.


The fact that you are getting 'user unknown in virtual mailbox table'
tells me that your list domain is a postfix virtual domain. You need
to go to <http://www.list.org/mailman-install/node12.html> and do the
things outlined in both subsections 6.1.1 and 6.1.2.

In mm_cfg.py you need

MTA= 'Postfix'

and

POSTFIX_STYLE_VIRTUAL_DOMAINS = ['list.example.com']

(with your real domain of course). See the documentation for this in
Defaults.py.

You also need to reference data/aliases and data/virtual-mailman in
your postfix main.cf as outlined in the manual linked above.

If you have further questions about this, please ask.

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