Re: Postfix/Mailman question...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Burger" <mburger@bubbanfriends.org>
To: "Bill Landry" <billl@pointshare.com>
Cc: <postfix-users@postfix.org>
Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 5:58 PM
Subject: 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.

Tried that, didn't help. Besides, the README.POSTFIX specifically states:

- Hack your Postfix's main.cf file to include the following path
in your alias_maps variable:

/usr/local/mailman/data/aliases

(no trailing .db). Do not include this in your alias_database
variable. This is because you do not want Postfix's newaliases
command to modify Mailman's aliases.db file, but you do want
Postfix to consult aliases.db when looking for local addresses.

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

Yep, tried that, as well, also didn't help. Any other ideas...?

Thanks,

Bill