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[David Verdin <address@concealed>]

Hi,

Anybody subscribed to sympa-users can edit the Sympa documentation.
You just have to log in to the site using the same email address you're subscribed to the list with.

Note that we're using a federated SSO, so if you don't belong to any French university, just create a "CRU account" which will be enough to log in to the Sympa web site.

Regards,

David


Le 16/04/11 00:26, Paul Menzel a écrit :

Am Freitag, den 15.04.2011, 17:27 +0300 schrieb Mail Administrator, Otto J. Makela:

As I'm not terribly familiar with Postfix (or Sympa), it took me a while to
figure out what was wrong with the instructions given on the page:
	http://www.sympa.org/manual/mail-aliases#alias_manager

It doesn't tell you two rather important things:

1) By default, the value in Constants.pm for SENDMAIL_ALIASES (which specifies
the alias file) is /etc/mail/sympa_aliases which you can override in
sympa.conf with sendmail_aliases, but by default none is set and the setup
wizard doesn't ask about it. So the instructions tell you to edit into the
file a value different from what Sympa uses by default.

I did not get the problem. What should be changed?

2) alias_manager.pl indeed does run newaliases, but the Postfix newaliases
does NOT rebuild the databases given in its configuration setting alias_maps,
but only the ones given in alias_database. So, again, the value suggested in
the documentation is not what Postfix by default uses.

One way to fix these is to add the following line to /etc/sympa.conf:
sendmail_aliases        /home/sympa/etc/sympa_aliases
and the following line to /etc/postfix/main.cf:
alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases,hash:/home/sympa/etc/sympa_aliases

Is changing
        
        alias_maps =
        hash:/etc/aliases,hash:/home/sympa/etc/sympa_aliases
        
to the following also acceptable?

        alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases,hash:/etc/sympa_aliases

Who could correct this somewhat misleading documentation?

It is a Wiki so you can register and edit it yourself. I do not know if
subscribers of sympa-users can automatically edit this page.


Thanks,

Paul

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David Verdin
Comité réseau des universités

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