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[Olivier Salaun <address@concealed>]

Regarding recent thread about problems with automatic aliases management in 
Sympa,
a few things need to be explained (and probably better documented in the 
future) :

1/ Sympa aliases file and permission problems
---------------------------------------------

Aliases file can be set with configure's 'with-sendmail_aliases' option. 
Default
value is etc/mail/sympa_aliases. You first need to make your sendmail/postfix
use their additional aliases file. 
        For postfix (as procvided by Adam Bernstein), change your your main.cf
        as follows :
                alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases, hash:/etc/mail/sympa_aliases
        
        For sendmail, change your sendmail.mc as follows :
        define(`ALIAS_FILE', `/etc/mail/aliases,/etc/mail/sympa_aliases')

sympa_aliases will be edited by the alias_manager.pl (of postfix_manager.pl), 
called
by WWSympa. In normal conditions, wwsympa.fcgi runs as user 'sympa.sympa' ; 
therefore
your /etc/mail/sympa_aliases file needs to be writable for 'sympa' user.

2/ with virtual robots
----------------------

If you manage virtual robots with Sympa, then :
        with Postfix, add an entry to your /etc/postfix/virtual.regexp :
        /^(.*)my\.domain\.fr$/  ${1}-my.domain.fr

        with Sendmail, add an entry to your /etc/mail/virtusertable :
        @my.domain.fr       %1-my.domain.fr

Entries in the 'aliases' file will look like this :
        sympa-my.domain.fr:     "|/home/sympa/bin/sympa.pl address@concealed"
        .....
        listA-my.domain.fr:     "|/home/sympa/bin/sympa.pl address@concealed"

You also need to adapt the 'alias_manager.pl' script distributed with Sympa 
the 
following way :
        <       $alias .= '@'.$domain
        ---
        >       $alias .= '-'.$domain


> Eric Sandquist wrote:
> 
> When I create a new list using wwsympa, I always get an error regarding 
> permissions for modifying the aliases.  How do I go about correcting that?  
> If I run postfix_manager.pl as root, it creates all the 
> aliases/domainaliases just fine.  So, do I need to create somekind of 
> wrapper script that will make the call with root priveleges?
> 
> Eric

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Olivier Salaün
Comité Réseau des Universités