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[David Verdin <address@concealed>]

Hi Niklas, and sorry for this late answer,

I just re-read the postfix howto and something is not clear to me: I have the impression that the aliases are defined twice.

  - Once in the sympa_aliases file (step 3 of the howto)
  - Once in the master.cf and transporte_regexp files.

What's worse is that the definitions don't look consistent :

  - in the sympa_aliases file, any mail to "list-owner" is piped to bouncequeue with the address "address@concealed"
  - the combination of transport_regexp and master.cf lead to a mail to "list-owner" being piped to bouncequeue with the address "list-owner".

Actually, sympa_aliases are not even necessary as any aliases in postfix can be defined as regexp. Did you have a look at the other howto for postfix, covering virtual hosting? It can be found here:

https://www.sympa.org/faq/postfix#postfix_regexp_aliaseshow_to_do_away_with_alias_managerpl

In this text, the author suggests to use a set of rewriting rules to define properly the aliases as regexp.

Please tell me if my understanding of the postfix configuration is correct. If so, then the Sympa documentation about Postfix must be rewritten.

Regards,

David

Le 25/03/11 19:44, Niklas Matthies a écrit :

Hello,

We noticed that bounces are not correctly processed with the Postfix
configuration described in http://www.sympa.org/faq/postfix_howto.

The problem is that bouncequeue expects the list address as its
argument (as witnessed by the sympa-generated alias entries), but the
definition of sympabounce in Postfix's master.cf passes the recipient
address of the bounce mail, which is the list-owner address. This
results in error messages like [1] in sympa.log.

As a workaround, we wrote a small wrapper script around bouncequeue
that removes the "-owner" suffix from the address before passing it to
bouncequeue. But maybe there is a better solution?

-- Niklas Matthies

[1]
bounced[<pid>]: err List::new() Incorrect name: listname "test-list-owner" matches one of service aliases
bounced[<pid>]: err Skipping bouncefile address@concealed for unknown list address@concealed
bounced[<pid>]: notice tools::save_to_bad() Saving file /address@concealed to /address@concealed

--
David Verdin
Comité réseau des universités

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