[LUNI] Postfix and Mailman and aliases, Oh my!

Larry Garfield larry at garfieldtech.com
Sat Apr 1 12:46:48 CST 2006


I've been trying to setup Mailman on my home server.  Here's the skinny:

garfieldtech.com : Debian Sarge, at home
lists.garfieldtech.com : CNAME to same

Server is running Debian Sarge, Postfix, Courier-IMAP.

Installing mailman went fine.  I was able to create my desired list, get its 
web configuration, and subscribe people manually.  

However, people can't subscribe themselves to the list.  All of the aliases 
for listname-subscribe@, listname-help@, etc. aren't working.  

I have confirmed their presence in /etc/aliases, and 
in /var/lib/mailman/data/aliases.  I've run /usr/lib/mailman/bin/genaliases 
and /usr/bin/newaliases.  I've restarted postfix and mailman.  Still nothing.

/usr/lib/mailman/bin/postfix-to-mailman.py has instructions on how to hook up 
postfix and mailman using a dedicated domain, such as lists.garfieldtech.com.  
Great.  That would be even better than putting it all on the same domain.  I 
followed those instructions and broke postfix.  It wouldn't even start.  I 
then undid those instructions. :-)

I'm at a loss here.  What's misbehaving?  Why aren't the mailman aliases 
hooking up properly?

Any help greatly appreciated.

-- 
Larry Garfield			AIM: LOLG42
larry at garfieldtech.com		ICQ: 6817012

"If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of 
exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, 
which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to 
himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession 
of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it."  -- Thomas 
Jefferson


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