Alls well that ends ... I cured the problem, finally, by deleting all the aliases in my virtual domain setup, which I had created following one of the explanations in the README.POSTFIX file. Of course I was then running Mailman 2.0.13.
If anyone has a better checklist of things to do to setup "postfix virtual domains", please post here and possibly send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - the address I'll be checking for the next week while I'm out of town. Van Larry Rosenman wrote: > On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 04:33, G. Armour Van Horn wrote: > > > I discovered from the /var/log/maillog file that I had a problem with my aliases, >and > > came to figure out that I was editing /etc/postfix/aliases but newaliases was using > > the /etc/aliases file to create an aliases.db file I now have added all the correct > > aliases (from bin/genaliases) to the /etc/aliases file, run newaliases, and just in > > case, copied both to /etc/postfix/. > [snip] > > > > > Oct 9 02:25:42 virtuoso postfix/qmgr[841]: 8702E2D7B2: > > from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, size=1258, nrcpt=1 (queue active) > > Oct 9 02:25:42 virtuoso postfix/local[1490]: fatal: open database > > /etc/postfix/aliases.db: Invalid argument > This looks like a DB version mismatch... (I'm not a postfix guy)... > > > Incidentally, this message has not been bounced. > > > > I have to get on a plane in a few hours, and would like not to leave the system in > > this state for the next week! > Understand that one. I'd check the makemap version and postfix version > for what DB (DBM) they are using. Somethings not matched right. > > LER > > -- > Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler > Phone: +1 972-414-9812 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > US Mail: 1905 Steamboat Springs Drive, Garland, TX 75044-6749 -- ---------------------------------------------------------- Sign up now for Quotes of the Day, a handful of quotations on a theme delivered every morning. Enlightenment! Daily, for free! mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=Subscribe_QOTD For web hosting and maintenance, visit Van's home page: http://www.domainvanhorn.com/van/ ---------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/