Actually, alias_database only appears to affect the "newaliases" command, and really isn't needed for what Mailman is doing, as I believe Mailman is using the "postalias" command to create the .db file, isn't it?
Bob > >> On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 03:52:37PM -0700, Dan Mick wrote: >> > What is this supposed to do? "postalias <a private alias file>" >> > appears to simply create an alias.dir/alias.pag pair in that >> > same directory, but not affect the Postfix delivery at all. >> > Is this a Postfix version skew problem? Is it expected >> > that postalias actually "installs" the aliases somehow? >> > It doesn't seem like that's the case. >> >> You have to setup your /etc/postfix/main.cf like this: >> >> alias_maps = dbm:/etc/postfix/aliases, >> dbm:/usr/local/mailman/aliases.mailman >> >> alias_database = dbm:/etc/postfix/aliases, >> dbm:/usr/local/mailman/aliases.mailman >> >> Then, I just do "postalias aliases.mailman" when I change >> ~mailman/aliases.mailman > >Well, that makes sense, but without that extra bit of "alias_maps" >configuration, the Problem/Solution as written doesn't make >much sense. > >I'm sure it's fixed for 2.1 with the README.POSTFIX file, but 2.0.10 >users are rightfully confused by that entry. > >Also, INSTALL in 2.1 has that partially-useful Problem/Solution >entry; even though it has been updated to point to README.POSTFIX, >it probably shouldn't come off like it solves that problem. > > > >_______________________________________________ >Mailman-Developers mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers >
