Re: Postfix/Mailman question...

On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Bill Landry wrote:

> I posted this issue to the Mailman list and no one has been able to figure
> out what's causing the following behavior, so I thought I would pose the
> question here.
>
> I have setup a list server running on Fedora Core 3, with Postfix 2.2.3,
> Mailman 2.1.5, and Python 2.3.4. I believe I have setup and configured the
> services correctly per the installation guides, but am seeing an issue with
> delivery of list messages.
>
> Per the Mailman documentation, I have setup the Mailman alias* files with the
> following ownership (Mailman's $prefix/bin/check_perms likes this):
>
> ls -l /usr/local/mailman/data
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman 107000 Jun 6 08:59 aliases
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman 167936 Jun 6 08:59 aliases.db
>
> However, went a message gets posted to the a list, it gets dropped into the
> deferred queue with the following logged to the maillog:
>
> Jun 6 10:52:07 lists postfix/local[20108]: warning: cannot find alias
> database owner for hash:/usr/local/mailman/data/aliases(0,34100)
>
> It was suggested that I try resetting the ownership to root:mailman on the
> aliases.db file (Mailman's $prefix/bin/check_perms does _not_ likes this):
>
> ls -l /usr/local/mailman/data
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman 107000 Jun 6 08:59 aliases
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 root mailman 167936 Jun 6 08:59 aliases.db
>
> And making this change causes the following results:
>
> Jun 6 12:22:45 lists postfix/local[20474]: 711426FE2C:
> to=<curtistest@lists.siemensmedical.com>, relay=local, delay=1,
> status=bounced (Command died with status 1: "/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman
> post curtistest")
>
> In main.cf I have the following alias* entries:
>
> postconf -n | grep alias
> alias_database = hash:/etc/postfix/aliases
> alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/aliases, hash:/usr/local/mailman/data/aliases
>
> Additional info:
> id mailman
> uid=41(mailman) gid=41(mailman) groups=41(mailman)
>
> grep mailman /etc/shadow
> mailman:!!:12327::::::

Two things I'd suggest.

First, add hash:/usr/local/mailman/data/aliases to the alias_database
line. I'm pretty sure that I had to do that, for mine.

Second, try making postfix a member of the mailman group, and see if that
helps.

--
Mike Burger
http://www.bubbanfriends.org

Visit the Dog Pound II BBS
telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org

To be notified of updates to the web site, visit
http://www.bubbanfriends.org/mailman...fo/site-update, or send a
message to:

site-update-request@bubbanfriends.org

with a message of:

subscribe