The mailing list for listmasters using Sympa

[Olivier Salaün - CRU <address@concealed>]

Sympa automatic aliases creation may fail for one of the following reason :

• The /etc/mail/sympa_aliases file (defined by 'sendmail_aliases' sympa.conf parameter) does not exist. Starting with Sympa 5.2, sympa.pl is able to create the aliases file if it is missing.
• /etc/mail/sympa_aliases is not used by your MTA. If using sendmail, add it to sendmail.cf
  
• The newaliases command requires special arguments on your system. You can define the newaliases command and arguments used during the configure. See http://www.sympa.org/doc/html/node4.html#SECTION00430000000000000000
• The aliaswrapper program is missing the SetUID bit
• Your /etc/mail/sympa_aliases does not have the appropriate privileges. It should neither be group-writeable nor world-writeable
  
• Your /etc/mail/sympa_aliases.db does not have the appropriate privileges. This file is created by running newaliase. User 'smmsp' should be owner of this map file
  

Redmond Militante wrote:

Isn't alias_manager.pl supposed to run 'newaliases' via aliaswrapper, whenever it is run?                         
                                                                                                                  
On our sympa installation, I can run alias_manager.pl from the command line, and when I create a new list via     
wwsympa.fcgi, alias_manager.pl runs and appends new list aliases to /etc/mail/sympa.aliases - but it looks like it
is not running 'newaliases' after appending to sympa.aliases.  I have to log in as root and run 'newaliases'      
manually in order to successfully send mail to my new list, otherwise I get a mail delivery notification telling  
me that the message can't be delivered because the recipient is unknown - running 'newaliases' fixes this.        
                                                                                                                  
Do I have to recompile in order to get alias_manager.pl to run newaliases for me?  Or do people usually just      
newaliases as a cron job?