[Mailman-Users] moving mailman lists to new server, same domain name

[Andrew Watson]

Great. Did as you suggested.

Then switched DNS to new IP.
Sent first test message to one of the lists (hs), but it bounced. Edited bounce message below:

> #< #5.0.0 X-Postfix; host mysite.com[128.xxx.xxx.xxx] said: 553 5.3.0 <hs at mysite.com>... User unknown (in reply to RCPT TO command)> #SMTP#

I ran newaliases. Same result.

The alias hs does appear in the /etc/mail/aliases:

hs:              "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post hs"


There is a duplicate definition of the mailman alias, but the two are identical. Maybe it makes newaliases unhappy?

Any suggestions?

Very, very grateful for your help.

-Andrew

On Jan 2, 2010, at 3:42 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:

> Andrew Watson wrote:
>> 
>> 1)  on the old server, all files in /usr/local/mailman/lists and
>> /user/local/mailman/archives have group mailman, but group wheel on the 
>> new server.
> 
> 
> This needs to be fixed. Everything needs to be Mailman's group
> 
> 
>> 2) on the old server, all archives/public files are owned by www, but on
>> the new server by root.
>> 
> 
> There should be no archives/public files at all; only symlinks.
> Ownership of symlinks is irrelevant.
> 
> If the old server had actual files in archives/public rather than
> symlinks, the best recourse may be to rebuild the archive for those
> lists with
> 
> bin/arch --wipe
> 
> 
>> 3) on the old server, all .mbox files in archives/private are owned by 
>> www, but on the new server by root.
> 
> 
> This doesn't matter. It's the group that's important, not the owner.
> 
> 
>> 4) on the old server, all files in lists are owned by www, but on the
> 
> 
> See 3.
> 
> 
>> Should I correct all owner and group states to match the old server?
>> From previous posts, I gather that owner is not important but that
>> group MUST be "mailman".
> 
> 
> First, run
> 
> bin/check_perms -f
> 
> as root on the new server until it either fixes everything or gets to a
> "no change" point. That may be enough, but if there are files left
> that aren't in Mailman's group, you can fix thiose by hand.
> 
> 
> -- 
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