[Mailman-Users] Alias problem?

[Mark Sapiro]

Jian Gao wrote"

>
>Then, as you recommended, I add domain1.com as mydestination on main.cf, 
>reload Postfix:
>/[root at mail postfix]# postconf -n | grep mydestination
>mydestination = mail.domain1.com, domain1.com, localhost, 
>localhost.localdomain/
>
>Then I test by sending email to the same tester at domain1.com, maillog shows:
>/Aug  9 13:55:21 mail postfix/local[2751]: 1953942F01CE: 
>to=<tester at domain1.com>, relay=local, delay=2.2, delays=2.1/0.03/0/0.03, 
>dsn=5.1.1, status=bounced (unknown user: "tester")/
>
>What I see now is Postfix no longer looking for virtual domain. In 
>stead, it try to deliver the mail use /"relay=local"/. Since I don't 
>have a real tester user account on the server, so Postfix failed to deliver.
>
>All above has nothing to do with Mailman. I was configuring and testing 
>Mailman then suddenly I realized my email server is broken. So I 
>restored the system (I have a clonezilla image backup) and did the above 
>test.
>
>Is this means that I should not put "domain1.com" in "mydestination="?


Yes, this means you have a mail configuration which doesn't work well
with Mailman/Postfix..

Your best and easiest solution is to use 'mail.mydomain.com' as both
the web domain and the email domain for Mailman. Since this domain is
already Postfix local, it will work with Mailman generated aliases and
no virtual-mailman.

Otherwise, see the FAQ at <http://wiki.list.org/x/ZoCj>.

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