[Mailman-Users] Problem creating mailing lists via web interface in 2.1.11

2012-03-28 Thread Steve Matzura
It works just fine if I log in as root and use newlist, but if I try to create a new list via the web admin interface, two things happen. First, I get an error, whose text I do not have in front of me (I know, I know, first rule of error reporting, report the exact error, but you probably won't

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem creating mailing lists via web interface in 2.1.11

2012-03-28 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 9:34 PM, Steve Matzura sm...@noisynotes.com wrote: user unknown in virtual mailbox table. My question is, why doesn't the web interface create new list feature update the aliases file? What aliases file? Exim, for example, doesn't need one at all. There are many MTAs,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem creating mailing lists via web interface in 2.1.11

2012-03-28 Thread Steve Matzura
The MTA is postfix. The file in question is /var/lib/mailman/data/aliases which, according to what I've read, is created from aliases.db. The interesting thing is, virtual-mailman *is* updated correctly from virtual-mailman.db while aliases is not. Mailman was installed long before I got here,