Developers of Sympa

[Olivier Salaun <address@concealed>]

Hi,

Currently, alias management in Sympa has been designed to work with sendmail.
As you reported, (as far as I know) Postfix does not accept the domain part
in aliases, because it uses another database for Virtual domain management :
the "virtual" file. This makes aliases for Virtual Hosts a bit more 
complicated
to manage than with sendmail : you can't pipe to a program in the "virtual" 
table,
you must refer to a unique entry of "aliases" table that does the job. This 
leads
to something like this :

        * in 
        address@concealed        fr.domain1.sympa
        address@concealed        fr.domain2.sympa
        
        * in /etc/postfix/aliases
        fr.domain1.sympa: "|/home/sympa/bin/queue address@concealed"
        fr.domain2.sympa: "|/home/sympa/bin/queue address@concealed"


With Postfix, Sympa should update both files. 
This implies the following changes in Sympa :

        * extending alias_manager.pl to work this way when using Postfix
        * adding a variable in Sympa's Makefile for "/etc/postfix/virtual"
        * defining a convention for the alias names in "aliases" 
(fr.domain1.sympa
          could be fr.domain1_sympa or fr.domain1-sympa)


I'm not a Postfix expert ; could Postfix users confirm this is the way it 
works ?

Thanks.

> When creating a new list through the web interface to Sympa it gives the
> set of email aliases that you should create in order for it to work.
> 
> These are reported as:
> 
> #----------------- address@concealed
> address@concealed: "| /usr/lib/sympa/bin/queue address@concealed"
> address@concealed: "| /usr/lib/sympa/bin/queue 
> address@concealed"
> address@concealed: "| /usr/lib/sympa/bin/bouncequeue foo"
> address@concealed: "| /usr/lib/sympa/bin/queue 
> address@concealed"
> # address@concealed: "| /usr/lib/sympa/bin/queue 
> address@concealed"
> 
> Postfix, the MTA I use, then complains about the alias address being
> non-local.
> 
> It can be made to work successfully by turning it into this form, like
> the aliases created in previous versions:
> 
> #----------------- address@concealed
> foo: "| /usr/lib/sympa/bin/queue foo"
> foo-request: "| /usr/lib/sympa/bin/queue foo-request"
> foo-owner: "| /usr/lib/sympa/bin/bouncequeue foo"
> foo-unsubscribe: "| /usr/lib/sympa/bin/queue foo-unsubscribe"
> # foo-subscribe: "| /usr/lib/sympa/bin/queue foo-subscribe"
> 
> I don't know if this is the right way to do this, however, or if
> stripping the host details off the argument to the Sympa commands will
> break "virtual robot" setups or anything like that.
> 
> It would be nice to have appropriate documentation on the correct format
> for these so that, at least, I could know what should be done to correct
> this issue...

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Olivier Salaün
Comité Réseau des Universités