[Mailman-Users] {Disarmed} Re: Mailman stop working...help! (Progress?)

[Seun Ojedeji]

Hello Mark, All

Thanks for all the help and i am sorry for coming back again as i am yet to
get this to work... I have redone the transport, here is my new postconf
-n  (now using mail.mydomain.net this time)

admin at mydomain:~$ sudo postconf -n
alias_database = hash:/var/lib/mailman/data/aliases
alias_maps = hash:/var/lib/mailman/data/aliases
append_dot_mydomain = no
biff = no
broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes
config_directory = /etc/postfix
html_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix/html
inet_interfaces = all
mail_name = MAIL SERVER
mailbox_command = procmail -a "$EXTENSION"
mailbox_size_limit = 0
mydestination = localhost.mydomain.net, localhost
myhostname = mail.mydomain.net
mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8 [::ffff:127.0.0.0]/104 [::1]/128
myorigin = /etc/mailname
readme_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix
recipient_delimiter = +
relayhost =
smtp_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${data_directory}/smtp_scache
smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mail_name (Ubuntu)
smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks
permit_sasl_authenticated       check_policy_service
unix:private/vpm-pfpolicy      reject_unauth_destination
smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes
smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem
smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key
smtpd_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${data_directory}/smtpd_scache
smtpd_use_tls = yes
transport_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/transport
virtual_mailbox_domains = pgsql:/etc/postfix/vpm-domains
virtual_transport = vpm-pftransport

However, when i created a list, i got the warn message
warning: removing zero-length database file:
/var/lib/mailman/data/aliases.db
my /etc/postfix/transport, has this single entry   :  mail.mydomain.net
mailman:

When i try to send my first mail to the list, i still got a feed back of no
such domain! Its really frustrating, especially when its probably a comment
or word that i am missing. kindly help

Regards
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 10:35 PM, Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net> wrote:

> Seun Ojedeji wrote:
> >> >Hi,
> >> >Perhaps i should provide my details maybe i could get help here....i
> >> really
> >> >wish to keek the vpostmaster frontend(because of the ease of
> >> >account//domain creation) and still needs my mailman. below is the url
> to
> >> >my /etc/mailman/mm_cfg.py and /etc/postfix/main.cf . Kindly help!
> >> >
> >> >http://pastebin.ca/2139462
> >>
> >>
> >> If I understand correctly what the situation is, your list mail is
> >> being rejected by the incoming MTA at SMTP time and never being
> >> delivered to Mailman. Thus, your mm_cfg.py is not relevant at this
> >> point.
> >>
> >> Yes exactly that is the problem and thank you for telling me tht
> mm_cfy.py
> >is not the issue
> >
> >
> >> Also, the output of 'postconf -n' is generally much easier for those
> >> who would help you than is the entire main.cf.
> >>
> >> Here is the output below:
> >admin at mydomain:~$ postconf -n
> >alias_database = hash:/var/lib/mailman/data/aliases
> >alias_maps = hash:/var/lib/mailman/data/aliases
> >append_dot_mydomain = no
> >biff = no
> >broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes
> >config_directory = /etc/postfix
> >html_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix/html
> >inet_interfaces = all
> >mail_name = mydomain MAIL SERVER
> >mailbox_command = procmail -a "$EXTENSION"
> >mailbox_size_limit = 0
> >mydestination = lists.mydomain.net, localhost, localhost.localdomain
> >myhostname = mail.mydomain.net
> >mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8 [::ffff:127.0.0.0]/104 [::1]/128
> >readme_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix
> >recipient_delimiter = +
> >relayhost =
> >smtp_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${data_directory}/smtp_scache
> >smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mail_name (Ubuntu)
> >smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks
> >permit_sasl_authenticate                                        d
> >permit_auth_destination check_policy_service unix:private/vpm-pfpolicy
> >r                                        eject_unauth_destination
> >smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes
> >smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem
> >smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key
> >smtpd_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${data_directory}/smtpd_scache
> >smtpd_use_tls = yes
> >virtual_alias_maps = hash:/var/lib/mailman/data/virtual-mailman
> >virtual_mailbox_domains = pgsql:/etc/postfix/vpm-domains
> >virtual_transport = vpm-pftransport
> >
> >
> >> That said, there is nothing much in main.cf that would indicate a
> >> problem except that the vPostMaster stuff beginning at line 48 in the
> >> pastebin is probably the issue, but exactly what the issue is can't be
> >> determined without knowing what's in /etc/postfix/vpm-domains and
> >> probably what's in master.cf for the vpm-pftransport.
> >>
> >> Here is output of /etc/postfix/vpm-domains
> >user=postfix
> >password=fd483c8dc339ea19188aa69e8ae668a3
> >hosts=127.0.0.1
> >dbname=vpostmaster
> >table=domains
> >select_field='X'
> >where_field=name
> >additional_conditions = and active = 't'
>
>
> There's probably an entry in the 'domains' table for the lists....
> domain which needs to be removed.
>
>
> >Here is the master.cf.vpostmaster : http://pastebin.ca/2140584  However i
> >think its using the default master.cf as it wrote some vpostmaster stuffs
> >there. Here is the master.cf http://pastebin.ca/2140584
>
>
> Those are the same URL. I note however tahe there is a mailman
> transport defined using postfix_to_mailman.py. Is this how you were
> delivering to Mailman. Is ther (or was there before) an entry in
> transport maps (possibly /etc/postfix/transport) mapping the lists...
> domain to the mailman transport? Your current postconf -n shows no
> entry for transport_maps
>
> If in fact, you want to use postfix_to_mailman.py, adding
>
> transport_maps = hash:/path/to/transport
>
> making sure that transport contains an entry like
>
> lists.mydomain.net   mailman:
>
> and running
>
> postmap /path/to/transport
>
> may solve your porblem.
>
>
> >Based on your prior post, I would guess that mail to the
> >> "lists.mydomain.net" domain is being routed to vPostMaster and
> >> vPostMaster doesn't know how to deliver to Mailman.
> >>
> >> Exactly! how do i get to route to the right domain??
>
>
> Ask the right question on the vPostMaster list.
>
>
> >> The response you got from a vpostermaster list said:
> >>
> >> > You'll have to make sure that the domain that is used for the list
> e-mail
> >> > is not managed by vPostMaster; without the vPostMaster integration, I
> >> > don't know of a way to get Postfix to deliver both to regular accounts
> >> > and lists in the same domain.
> >>
> >>
> >> That says that your lists should be in the "lists.mydomain.net" domain
> >> and only list mail should be addressed to that domain, i.e. no local
> >> user addresses in that domain, and that domain should not be managed
> >> by vPostMaster, i.e. it should not be in /etc/postfix/vpm-domains.
> >>
> >> Yes the domain is not there at all, but and that is why in the error i
> get
> >no such domain message
>
>
> I can't help with any vPostMaster specific configuration.
>
> --
> Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net>        The highway is for gamblers,
> San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan
>
>


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