Re: [Mailman-Users] alias question...

2008-04-01 Thread RVaughn
I ran into the same problem with postfix and mailman-2.1.9-r3 on Gentoo. You are already on a wild goose chase. But that master.cf seems good. Check your postfix logs for [local] fatal: execvp /usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman: Permission denied reverting to gentoo's 2.1.9 did nothing. chmod does no

Re: [Mailman-Users] alias question...

2008-04-01 Thread Mark Sapiro
Dov Oxenberg wrote: > > Before I go on a wild goose chase...here are the contents of my > master.cf file - does this look normal? What I mean is, does it appear > as though I am missing anything? > > # > # Postfix master process configuration file. For details on the format > # of the file, s

Re: [Mailman-Users] alias question...

2008-04-01 Thread Dov Oxenberg
Before I go on a wild goose chase...here are the contents of my master.cf file - does this look normal? What I mean is, does it appear as though I am missing anything? # # Postfix master process configuration file. For details on the format # of the file, see the master(5) manual page (command

Re: [Mailman-Users] alias question...

2008-04-01 Thread Dov Oxenberg
No worries...Alright well, I have kept digging and in examining the mail.log file I see postfix is refusing SMTP connections which may explain why I am not seeing the pending requests. And I also see the welcome messages to the members I manually subscribed (mass subscribe for the web UI) trying

Re: [Mailman-Users] alias question...

2008-04-01 Thread Mark Sapiro
Dov Oxenberg wrote: >I think I just spent too long in front of the computer yesterday :-) >Under /var/lib/mailman/messages folder are directories with what appear to be >country abbreviations? No. It is I who spent too much time doing whatever. The messages/ directory has nothing to do with Mai

Re: [Mailman-Users] alias question...

2008-04-01 Thread Dov Oxenberg
Hi, I think I just spent too long in front of the computer yesterday :-) Under /var/lib/mailman/messages folder are directories with what appear to be country abbreviations? For example, under /var/lib/mailman/messages/eu/ there is a folder called LC_Messages, and under that two files, mailman.mo

Re: [Mailman-Users] alias question...

2008-04-01 Thread Mark Sapiro
Dov Oxenberg wrote: > Here is the line from my main.cf: > alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases, hash:/etc/mail/aliases, > hash:/var/lib/mailman/data/aliases > The results of my ls -l, which by the way I had looked at earlier also > and neglected to mention, are illustrated in the attached screen shot.

Re: [Mailman-Users] alias question...

2008-03-31 Thread Dov Oxenberg
Here is the line from my main.cf: alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases, hash:/etc/mail/aliases, hash:/var/lib/mailman/data/aliases The results of my ls -l, which by the way I had looked at earlier also and neglected to mention, are illustrated in the attached screen shot. I see the system thinks the gr

Re: [Mailman-Users] alias question...

2008-03-31 Thread Mark Sapiro
Dov Oxenberg wrote: > Apparently the target files/folders on my system are under > /var/lib/mailman/. So, thanks to your help I have now overcome this > hurdle. And yes, I had postfix set as the value for MTA. > I am now stepping through all the troubleshooting steps in the mailman > FAQ here

Re: [Mailman-Users] alias question...

2008-03-31 Thread Dov Oxenberg
any ideas??? Thanks again for your indulgence. Dov > Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:55:32 -0700> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL > PROTECTED]> CC: mailman-users@python.org> Subject: Re: RE: [Mailman-Users] > alias question...> > Dov Oxenberg wrote:> > Hi,&g

Re: [Mailman-Users] alias question...

2008-03-31 Thread Mark Sapiro
Dov Oxenberg wrote: > Hi, > Actually this is probably the fourth or fifth time I am revisiting > "Chapter 6." > But I seem to be making better progress now than in my previous attempts. > I am at the part where I am trying to make sure data/aliases* have the > correct ownership, GID, etc. When I

Re: [Mailman-Users] alias question...

2008-03-31 Thread Dov Oxenberg
ong now Thanks! > Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:09:36 -0700> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL > PROTECTED]; mailman-users@python.org> Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] alias > question...> > Dov Oxenberg wrote:> > >It has to do with postfix not being > able to

Re: [Mailman-Users] alias question...

2008-03-30 Thread Mark Sapiro
Dov Oxenberg wrote: > Hi Mark, > Thanks for your prompt reply. > It seems you are right on target. Below is the relevant data from my main.cf: [some hotmail running together edited below] > myhostname = mydomainname.com > alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases;hash:/etc/mail/aliases > alias_database = ha

Re: [Mailman-Users] alias question...

2008-03-30 Thread Dov Oxenberg
2008 20:09:36 -0700> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL > PROTECTED]; mailman-users@python.org> Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] alias > question...> > Dov Oxenberg wrote:> > >It has to do with postfix not being > able to locate the aliases.db and I am getting lots o

Re: [Mailman-Users] alias question...

2008-03-30 Thread Mark Sapiro
Dov Oxenberg wrote: >It has to do with postfix not being able to locate the aliases.db and I am >getting lots of these in the syslog: >fatal: open database /etc/aliases;hash:/etc/mail/aliases.db: No such file or >directory This looks like an error in Postfix's main.cf. It appears you have somet

[Mailman-Users] alias question...

2008-03-30 Thread Dov Oxenberg
Hi, I apologize if this is covered somewhere in the FAQ, I must have missed it. I think I am pretty close to getting my first list working but having an issue I just cannot seem to work out on my own. It has to do with postfix not being able to locate the aliases.db and I am getting lots of these