Mark,
Again I can't thank you enough for all your help. I've done some research and received some advice from others on how to accomplish this with BBEdit which I have found to be a superbly simple and efficient way to accomplish this. I download the free trial demo and used it to edit mm_cfg.py file following your recommendations. I also ran the two sudo commands as you suggested. This is the output from the Terminal window: > Last login: Tue Dec 7 18:19:11 on ttys000 > dentserv:~ locadmin$ sudo /usr/share/mailman/bin/withlist -l -a -r fix_url > Password: > Importing fix_url... > Running fix_url.fix_url()... > Loading list implants (locked) > Saving list > Loading list mailman (locked) > Saving list > Finalizing > dentserv:~ locadmin$ sudo /usr/share/mailman/bin/genaliases > dentserv:~ locadmin$ I am trying as I type this to continue with the second part of your recommendations. Where exactly do I find the Postfix main.cf file so that I can edit it also ? On a different note, why is the clock on top of the terminal window above displaying Dec 7 18:19:11 when it is now Dec 8, 4:41 pm here in California ? The clock on the menu bar of the server computer has the proper time but the Terminal window seems to be almost a day behind. Could this be a problem ? Thanks again, Joe On 12/8/10 3:51 PM, "Mark Sapiro" <m...@msapiro.net> wrote: > JRC Groups wrote: >> >> I am extremely grateful that you took the time to help me with this issue. >> In order for me to make the changes you recommended please allow me to ask >> some truly basic questions since I have no experience with Unix or editing >> system files. >> >> Is there a simpler way than Terminal (command line) to edit these files and >> then resave them ? Something along the lines of a text editor. Or do I need >> to use Terminal to do it ? > > > You can edit the files with the TextEdit application, but there may be > serious issues with permissions or even navigating to the files in > Finder or the TextEdit open dialog. > > I suggest you do the following: > > To change the postfix main.cf file, use the postconf command's -e > option as in > >> sudo postconf -e "virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual_users, >> hash:/var/mailman/data/virtual-mailman" > > (above command is all on one line) See "man postconf" for details. > > To edit mm_cfg.py, in terminal you can do > >> sudo /Applications/TextEdit.app/Comtents/MacOS/TextEdit >> /usr/share/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py > > (above command is all on one line) This will open the file in TextEdit > in a way that you can save your changes. > > There may be better ways to do this. For example, on my Mac I have a > 'root' user I can log on to. I would log on as this user and open > terminal and then invoke the 'vi' editor on the files, but I can't > explain how to use 'vi' as simply as I can explain the above. ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
