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["Luc Brouard (mailing lists)" <address@concealed>]

You didn't put the correct aliases in postfix.
Normally sympa put aliases in /etc/aliases (sometines it doesn't
have write permission to the file so you have to do it by yourself)
and then you do newaliases to create the new database.

I don't have access to my aliases right now but when you create a
list with wwsympa, it should told you the aliases needed (4 or 5 per
lists IIRC)

regards



Todd Cole said:
> Harald,
>
> Thank you very much for your assistance.  This is where we are at the
> moment:
>
> 1)  We have been able to access Sympa using wwsympa.cfgi, and to create
> lists and subscribe users.  Users receive a confirmation email from
> Sympa when they are subscribed.
>
> 2)  Postings to the lists created in wwsympa.cfgi are NOT delivered to
> users subscribed to the list.  (We receive an "action_succeeded"
> message but the posting never arrives.)  When users attempt to post to
> a list via email, they receive a message similar to the following:
>
> "This is the Postfix program at host wheezy.ovcamex.com.
>
> I'm sorry to have to inform you that the message returned
> below could not be delivered to one or more destinations.
>
> For further assistance, please send mail to <postmaster>
>
> If you do so, please include this problem report. You can
> delete your own text from the message returned below.
>
> The Postfix program
>
> <address@concealed>: unknown user: "test" "
>
> Any thoughts on why the subscription confirmations would be delivered
> successfully but the postings would not?  Thanks again for your help.
>
> -Todd
>
> Todd G. Cole
> Vice President and CIO
> Online Vacation Center
> 1801 NW 66th Avenue, Suite 102
> Plantation, FL 33313-4534
> phone: (954) 377-6424
> fax:     (954) 377-6368
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harald Wilhelmi [mailto:address@concealed]
> Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 6:12 AM
> To: address@concealed
> Subject: Re: [sympa-users] Initial List Creation
>
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 09:53:34PM +0100, address@concealed wrote:
>> Can someone provide me with a simple 1-2-3 on how to create an initial
>> list?  I have looked through the Sympa documentation and also searched
>> Google Groups but have been unable to locate what I believe is a
> pretty
>> simple step.
>
> Methode A
> =========
>
> Use WWSympa.
> 1) Ask WWSympa to send you your listmaster-Password.
> 2) Login as Listmaster.
> 3) Select List create button (just on top of the page, right to the
> logout
>   button) to get the list creation request form.
> 4) Fill out the missing data and confirm it.
>
> Mostly the same procedure is possible for normal users in the default
> configuration, but a confirmation is needed by the list master
> (WWSympa or a email command).
>
> Methode B
> =========
>
> The manual way. Most useful if you have migrate a large number of lists
> from some other mailing list system or simular.
>
> 1) cd ~sympa/expl
> 2) mkdir list-name
> 3) cd list-name
> 4) Create a file config there. You may find some nice starting points
>   in ~sympa/bin/etc/create_list_templates/*/config.tpl.
> 5) Add some more files there if you like:
>   * info (may contain list discribtion)
>   * message.footer
>   * welcome.tpl
> 6) If you have configured archives, create a directory to put them in:
>
>       mkdir archives
>
> 7) Be sure that anything is accessible (including write permission) for
>   for sympa/sympa:
>
>       chown sympa *
>       chgrp sympa *
>       chmod u+w *
>
> Now you can add users. Sometimes I needed to take some manual steps in
> ~sympa/arc to make the archiver working. But I just can't remeber under
> wich cirumstancers that happened. However this will become obvious if
> you look into the syslog messages while sending your first test emails.
>
> --
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> Harald Wilhelmi
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