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[Redmond Militante <address@concealed>]

+++ Olivier Salaün - CRU <address@concealed> [06/04/20 08:38]:
> 
>    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

We are using postfix.
Is there a way to get postfix to use /etc/mail/sympa_aliases?

R.

>      * The newaliases command requires special arguments on your system.
>        You can define the newaliases command and arguments used during
>        the configure. See
>        [1]http://www.sympa.org/doc/html/node4.html#SECTION004300000000000
>        00000
>      * 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, an
> d when I create a new list via
> wwsympa.fcgi, alias_manager.pl runs and appends new list aliases to 
> /etc/mail/s
> ympa.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 m
> ail delivery notification telling
> me that the message can't be delivered because the recipient is unknown - 
> runni
> ng 'newaliases' fixes this.
> 
> 
> Do I have to recompile in order to get alias_manager.pl to run newaliases 
> for m
> e?  Or do people usually just
> newaliases as a cron job?
> 
> References
> 
>    1. http://www.sympa.org/doc/html/node4.html#SECTION00430000000000000000

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