[Mailman-Users] mailman and virtual mailboxes on same domain

Cedric Jeanneret cjeanneret at internux.ch
Fri Feb 24 10:51:01 CET 2012


Oh, thanks a lot !

it's now working just fine :)

Cheers,

C.

On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 23:33:37 -0800
Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net> wrote:

> Cédric Jeanneret wrote:
> >
> >I'm having big troubles with a special setup:
> >
> >one server, one domain (say foo.bar.com), virtual mailboxes (managed by 
> >ldap), and a mailman
> >
> >I'm using postfix and dovecot for the "standard" mail part, and this 
> >works well. My problem is for mailman:
> >
> >While trying to send email to my-list at foo.bar.com, postfix tells me 
> >this:
> >
> >Feb 23 09:49:25 sqdf3 postfix/smtpd[14760]: connect from myHost[myIP]
> >Feb 23 09:49:25 sqdf3 postfix/smtpd[14760]: 1CAECBE69AC: 
> >client=myHost[myIP]
> >Feb 23 09:49:25 sqdf3 postfix/cleanup[14765]: 1CAECBE69AC: 
> >message-id=<20120223084925.0B86537AAEF at mail.myhost>
> >Feb 23 09:49:25 sqdf3 postfix/qmgr[14759]: 1CAECBE69AC: 
> >from=<me at myhost>, size=513, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
> >Feb 23 09:49:25 sqdf3 postfix/smtpd[14760]: disconnect from 
> >myHost[myIP]
> >Feb 23 09:49:25 sqdf3 postfix/virtual[14766]: 1CAECBE69AC: 
> >to=<|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post my-list at foo.bar.com>, 
> >orig_to=<my-list at foo.bar.com>, relay=virtual, delay=0.03, 
> >delays=0.02/0/0/0.01, dsn=5.1.1, status=bounced (unknown user: 
> >"|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post my-list at foo.bar.com")
> 
> 
> So you have an alias in a virtual mapping. Aliases only work with
> 'local' delivery.
> 
> 
> [...]
> >transport_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/transport
> >
> >virtual_transport = virtual
> >virtual_transport_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/transport
> 
> 
> What is this for?
> 
> 
> 
> >virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases, 
> >ldap:/etc/postfix/ldap-aliases.cf, hash:/etc/postfix/virtual
> 
> 
> /etc/aliases is not in the correct format for virtual_alias_maps. It
> should not be there.
> 
> 
> >virtual_alias_mbox = ldap:/etc/postfix/ldap-mbox.cf
> >virtual_mailbox_maps = ldap:/etc/postfix/ldap-accounts.cf
> >virtual_gid_maps = static:104
> >virtual_minimum_uid = 8
> >virtual_uid_maps = static:8
> >virtual_mailbox_domains = foo.bar.com
> >virtual_mailbox_base = /
> >mailman_destination_recipient_limit = 1
> >smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot
> >
> >
> >The virtual user delivery works just fine. Here's a sniped of my 
> >transport hash:
> >my-list at foo.bar.com mailman:
> 
> 
> So mail to my-list at foo.bar.com should use a 'mailman' transport,
> presumably defined in master.cf as postfix_to_mailman.py. If you want
> to use this, there should be no aliases for Mailman at all there
> should only be transport maps entries of the form
> 
> my-list at foo.bar.com mailman:
> my-list-admin at foo.bar.com mailman:
> my-list-bounces at foo.bar.com mailman:
> etc. A total of 10 per list since non-list mail for this domain should
> be handled by the 'virtual' transport. The FAQ at
> <http://wiki.list.org/x/ZoCj> may help.
> 
> 
> >@foo.bar.com virtual:
> >
> >Any help is welcome, if you need any other information regarding the 
> >postfix configuration, please ask - I'm pretty sure it's obvious, but I 
> >must be blind :(.
> >
> >Mailman version: 1:2.1.13-5 (on debian squeeze)
> >Postfix version: 2.7.1-1+squeeze1
> >Dovecot version: 1:1.2.15-7
> 
> 
> Please also see the FAQ at <http://wiki.list.org/x/OIDD>.
> 


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