[Mailman-Users] Problem with a mailman list setup

The Mailman documentation is available under
<http://www.list.org/docs.html>. From the sound of it, you need to
start with the Site Administrator documentation, particularly section
6.1 at <http://www.list.org/mailman-install/node12.html>.

Do the other lists on the site work?

It appears there are no aliases for the new list. If the MTA is Postfix
and it is 'integrated' with Mailman, the generation of aliases should be
automatic. Otherwise, you may need to manually add the 10 required
aliases for the list to /etc/aliases or wherever they go and run
postalias or newaliases or whatever.

Yes, the other lists are working.

I can see some of these aliases in virtual-mailman and virtual-mailman.db --
but there is a warning not to edit these files. Actually, one functioning
list isn't in either of these files, which makes me think there is a
separate aliases file elsewhere...

OK, same directory I see aliases. This file does have my new list of aliases
(which I did NOT enter manually):

# STANZA START: risingsun
# CREATED: Tue Jan 22 11:15:27 2008
risingsun: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post risingsun"
risingsun-admin: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman admin risingsun"
risingsun-bounces: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman bounces risingsun"
risingsun-confirm: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman confirm risingsun"
risingsun-join: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman join risingsun"
risingsun-leave: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman leave risingsun"
risingsun-owner: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman owner risingsun"
risingsun-request: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman request risingsun"
risingsun-subscribe: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman subscribe risingsun"
risingsun-unsubscribe: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman unsubscribe
risingsun"
# STANZA END: risingsun

However, the aliases.db DOES NOT include any of this information. Is there a
way I can edit this file? Do I need to? Could this be my problem?

Matt





-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Sapiro [mailto:mark at msapiro.net]
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 3:20 PM
To: Matthew Farr
Cc: mailman-users at python.org
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem with a mailman list setup

Matthew Farr wrote:

Do the other lists on the site work?

It appears there are no aliases for the new list. If the MTA is Postfix and
it is 'integrated' with Mailman, the generation of aliases should be
automatic. Otherwise, you may need to manually add the 10 required aliases
for the list to /etc/aliases or wherever they go and run postalias or
newaliases or whatever.

The aliases.db file is updated from the aliases file by the command

postalias /path/to/data/aliases

The list creation process that added these aliases to the data/aliases
file should run the postalias command defined as POSTFIX_ALIAS_CMD in
Defaults.py/mm_cfg.py (default is /usr/sbin/postalias) to update the
aliases.db. Perhaps this failed for some reason.

Another possibility is that Postfix's main.cf doesn't reference
data/aliases in alias_maps.