2009/9/3 Henri Shustak <henri.shus...@gmail.com>: > 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.
/etc/aliases is only good for local names - basically: system accounts. One solution to this is a set of virtual aliases that point to local aliases, something like (this is just an example, I can't remember the usual mailman syntax): virtual_alias_maps: (note that this is postmap'd not postalias'd, so there's no colons) listn...@example.com listname listname-ad...@example.com listname-admin etc.. Then in /etc/aliases: listname: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post listname" listname-admin: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman admin listname" A cleaner solution might be to use mailman's "virtual domain" support. It's been a while since I've looked at it, but this should be the right page: http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-install/postfix-virtual.html If memory serves, it leaves all the alias-handling to mailman, which is a boon.
