Re: Mailman "unkown user" issues. Fixed.

OK I found out where I was going wrong.

I was mixing up the alias maps with the virtual alias maps in main.cf. I
also didn't know how Mailman handled Postfix virtual domains.

Firstly, a line needs to be added to mailman's config file mm_cfg.py...
POSTFIX_STYLE_VIRTUAL_DOMAINS = ['domain1.co.uk','domain2.com']

where domain1.co.uk and domain2.com are names of the _virtual_ domains you
want Mailman to handle. This is a bit of a pain because it's a manual
command-line operation, Jamm won't do it for you. But then, why would it?


The lines required in Postfix main.cf are...
virtual_alias_maps = hash:/var/lib/mailman/data/virtual-mailman,
ldap:accountsmap, ldap:aliases

...and...
alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/aliases, hash:/var/lib/mailman/data/aliases

Check the location of the virtual-mailman and mailman aliases files. The
above is true for Mandrake 10.


In Mandrake I found the permissions of the mailman alias files either
caused Mailman to break during web-based list creation or Postfix to fail
due to executing the mailman scripts as the wrong user (Postfix uses the
owner of the aliases file to determin the GID of the user). So here is the
 /var/lib/mailman/data directory listing and owners...

-rw-r-----  1 root   mail      41 May 31 18:24 adm.pw
-rw-rw----  1 root   mail    1865 Jun 10 13:49 aliases
-rw-rw----  1 mail   apache 49152 Jun 10 13:49 aliases.db
-rw-rw----  1 mail   mail       5 Jun  5 19:39 master-qrunner.pid
-rw-r--r--  1 root   mail   14110 May 20 21:27 sitelist.cfg
-rw-rw----  1 root   mail    1657 Jun 10 13:45 virtual-mailman
-rw-r-----  1 apache mail   49152 Jun 10 13:49 virtual-mailman.db

Hope all this helps someone one day...

SimonB

> I have installed Mailman 2.1.4 from Mandrake 10 Official RPM on my Jamm
> server which is based on Mandrake 10 components.
>
> When I send mail to a list or the list sends welcome messages etc to
> Jamm/LDAP users it bounces back with an "unkown user" message because
> the list name is not recognised as a user of the virtual domain. It
> can"t find (example) listname@virtual_domain_name.com.
>
> Mailman aliases don"t seem to work with the LDAP domains.
>
>
> One line in main.cf seems to relate to mailman...
> alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/aliases, hash:/var/lib/mailman/data/aliases
>
>
> The contents of this file is auto-generated by Mailman and seems to be
> similar to what I have seen Mailman generate before e.g (extract)....
> # CREATED: Mon May 31 19:04:58 2004
> freds_soap_box:             "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post
> freds_soap_box"
> freds_soap_box-admin:       "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman admin
> freds_soap_box"
> freds_soap_box-bounces:     "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman bounces
> freds_soap_box"
> freds_soap_box-confirm:     "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman confirm
> freds_soap_box"
> freds_soap_box-join:        "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman join
> freds_soap_box"
> freds_soap_box-leave:       "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman leave
> freds_soap_box"
> freds_soap_box-owner:       "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman owner
> freds_soap_box"
> freds_soap_box-request:     "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman request
> freds_soap_box"
> freds_soap_box-subscribe:   "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman subscribe
> freds_soap_box"
> freds_soap_box-unsubscribe: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman
> nsubscribe
> freds_soap_box"
> # STANZA END: freds_soap_box
>
>



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