On Sat, 2014-04-05 at 18:40:39 -0400, Curtis Maurand wrote: > Sahil Tandon wrote: > > On Fri, 2014-04-04 at 14:55:49 -0400, Curtis Maurand wrote: > > > >> I'm getting local user unknown errors when I try to send email to the > >> list., but as far as I know, I shouldn't need local aliases with this > >> configuration that anything destined for lists.delrc.org should go to > >> mailman and that's that. I know that I'm missing a detail somewhere. > >> I had all of this working prior to this, but I had a server meltdown > >> the other day and my configs were blown away with it and for whatever > >> reason, I can't find any backups. :-( > > > > Typically, you have to update the alias_maps definition, so that Postfix > > is made aware of valid Mailman addresses. In your follow-up, include the > > output of 'postconf -n' rather than snippets from main.cf. See: > > > > > > http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-install/postfix-integration.html > > http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#alias_maps > > > I'll remember to do that. However, i was told of a way to configure it in > such a way that using transport maps all you had to do was to create the > list and there would be no alias management.
Please understand: regardless of transport(5) mapping, Postfix MUST in some way (e.g. aliases) be made aware of valid recipients. Otherwise, mail will be rejected by smtpd(8), well before your transport_maps are consulted. The following sections of the documentation might help you grasp this: http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#smtpd_reject_unlisted_recipient http://www.postfix.org/ADDRESS_CLASS_README.html#wtf If you have a question regarding the Mailman aspects of you configuration, please ask on mailman-users. -- Sahil Tandon
