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[Dexter <address@concealed>]

Hi,

Do you mean /etc/aliases ? that looks like this:

# /etc/aliases

mailer-daemon: postmaster

postmaster: root

nobody: root

hostmaster: root

usenet: root

news: root

webmaster: root

www: root

ftp: root

abuse: root

noc: root

security: root

#-- SYMPA begin

## Aliases used for the sympa mailing-list manager

sympa:                 "| /usr/lib/sympa/bin/queue address@concealed"

listmaster:            "| /usr/lib/sympa/bin/queue address@concealed"

bounce+*:              "| /usr/lib/sympa/bin/bouncequeue address@concealed"

abuse-feedback-report: "| /usr/lib/sympa/bin/bouncequeue address@concealed"

sympa-request:  postmaster

sympa-owner:    postmaster

test:               |/usr/lib/sympa/bin/queue address@concealed

test-request:       |/usr/lib/sympa/bin/queue address@concealed

test-editor:        |/usr/lib/sympa/bin/queue address@concealed

test-owner:         |/usr/lib/sympa/bin/bouncequeue address@concealed

test-subscribe:     |/usr/lib/sympa/bin/queue address@concealed

test-unsubscribe:   |/usr/lib/sympa/bin/queue address@concealed

#-- SYMPA end

Another thing, I use debian (lenny) and I installed postfix and sympa with apt-get. In the sympa docs they constantly reference to /home/sympa as the main configuration place, but my installation didn't setup it like that. I don't know what the difference is. But I seem to use "/usr/lib/sympa".

Thanks for your reply

Grtz, Dexter

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Rolf E. Sonneveld <address@concealed> wrote:

Hi, Dexter,

Dexter wrote:

Hi there, 

I really don't have any experience with sympa. Other than making it run on my server. 

But I'm running into some difficulty, 

My situation is as follows: 

I have a working postfix installation, together with the squirrelmail webinterface.

I want to use sympa to manage some mailinglists, a newsletter, and a discussion mailinglist.

But when I add a list, configure it, and subscribe some users. It succeeds. 

When I try to send an email to the mailinglist. I receive the following mail: 

This is the mail system at host mail.xx.nl.

I'm sorry to have to inform you that your message could not

be delivered to one or more recipients. It's attached below.

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 attached returned message.

                  The mail system

<test@xx.nl>: command line usage error. Command output:

   /usr/lib/sympa/bin/queue: usage error, one one list-name argument expected.

<test@xx.nl>: unknown user: "test"

Final-Recipient: rfc822; test@xx.nl

Original-Recipient: rfc822;address@concealed

Action: failed

Status: 5.3.0

Diagnostic-Code: x-unix; /usr/lib/sympa/bin/queue: usage error, one one

   list-name argument expected.

Final-Recipient: rfc822; address@concealed

Original-Recipient: rfc822;address@concealed

Action: failed

Status: 5.1.1

Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; unknown user: "test"

---------- Forwarded message ----------

From: Dexter

To: address@concealed

Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 14:24:59 +0200

Subject: sdghsdgkj

lkjhlkjhl 

I know I have to set the alias_manager option in sympa.conf, but when I do that, I get an error that that option is not available there(???)

Does anyone know how I can solve this?

what does your Postfix aliases file look like? It's probably in /etc, but if Postfix has been installed elsewhere, you will find it in the main configuration directory of Postfix.

Regards,
/rolf

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