Hello,
I manage a mailman mailing list server. The mailing list address
(aliases) were being managed from from /etc/aliases (on Ubuntu). In
the past I have configured the aliases and ran the postalias command
to update the .db file and everything has been working great!
However, I am now concerned that I have made some mistakes with
regards the setup of the postfix configuration.
I updated the system (with apt-get) and I guess this updated the
version of postfix I was running. I figured everything was running
correctly. However, when I recently went to configure a mailing list
by adding various lines similar to the following :
maillistn...@domain.com: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman
post maillistname"
into the /etc/alias file and then going to run the postalias command
on this file to update the .db file. the following error was reported :
postalias: warning: /etc/aliases, line XXX: name must be local
for every line which contained the above syntax.
I am guessing this is because the domain.com is not the local domain
for the server. However, post fix is setup to relay mail for this this
subdomain in the /etc/postfix/main.cf file. In addition, mailman is
configured as the transport for this domain.
I am not sure exactly what I have done wrong or how to fix this
situation. At present, I am not able to add any mailing lists to the
server. I will keep looking into the problem.
However, if anyone on this list is able to provide any helpful hints,
they would certainly be most welcomed.
I will report back if I manage to work this out.
Thanks.
Disclaimer : I am still learning about postfix administration. As such
it is very possible that I have configured something in a very odd way
and I am doing something very simple totally wrong.
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