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["Rolf E. Sonneveld" <address@concealed>]

Hi, Dexter,

Dexter wrote:
> 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
>         <mailto:address@concealed>"
>
>         listmaster:            "| /usr/lib/sympa/bin/queue
>         address@concealed <mailto:address@concealed>"
>
>         bounce+*:              "| /usr/lib/sympa/bin/bouncequeue
>         address@concealed <mailto:address@concealed>"
>
>         abuse-feedback-report: "| /usr/lib/sympa/bin/bouncequeue
>         address@concealed <mailto:address@concealed>"
>
>         sympa-request:  postmaster
>
>         sympa-owner:    postmaster
>
>
>
>         test:               |/usr/lib/sympa/bin/queue address@concealed
>         <mailto:address@concealed>
>
>         test-request:       |/usr/lib/sympa/bin/queue
>         address@concealed <mailto:address@concealed>
>
>         test-editor:        |/usr/lib/sympa/bin/queue
>         address@concealed <mailto:address@concealed>
>
>         test-owner:         |/usr/lib/sympa/bin/bouncequeue address@concealed
>         <mailto:address@concealed>
>
>         test-subscribe:     |/usr/lib/sympa/bin/queue
>         address@concealed <mailto:address@concealed>
>
>         test-unsubscribe:   |/usr/lib/sympa/bin/queue
>         address@concealed <mailto:address@concealed>
>
>
>
>         #-- SYMPA end

Can you change the test entries into:

   test:               "| /usr/lib/sympa/bin/queue address@concealed"
   <mailto:address@concealed>

   test-request:       "| /usr/lib/sympa/bin/queue address@concealed"
   <mailto:address@concealed>

   test-editor:        "| /usr/lib/sympa/bin/queue address@concealed"
   <mailto:address@concealed>

   test-owner:         "| /usr/lib/sympa/bin/bouncequeue address@concealed"
   <mailto:address@concealed>

   test-subscribe:     "| /usr/lib/sympa/bin/queue
   address@concealed" <mailto:address@concealed>

   test-unsubscribe:   "| /usr/lib/sympa/bin/queue
   address@concealed" <mailto:address@concealed>


In words: precede the vertical bar (pipe) with a double-quote, add one 
space after the vertical bar and close the line with a double quote. See 
if that helps.

> 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".

This is probably caused by the way Sympa has been build for the Debian 
distro. For Sympa 6 I noticed that it seems to have put the binaries in 
/usr/lib/sympa/lib/sympa. So please note: if the above hint solves your 
"one list-name argument expected" problem you may run into this location 
problem. You'll probably see an error like 'file or directory not found' 
in the syslog. If so, use

$ locate sympa | grep queue

to find out the correct location of the queue (and bouncequeue) binaries 
and modify your aliases accordingly. Hope this helps.

/rolf