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["Stefan Hornburg (Racke)" <address@concealed>]

On 6/26/20 1:23 PM, Steve Fisher wrote:
> Following a hint from David Verdin I tried setting:
> 
> alias_manager to  /sbin/alias_manager.pl <http://alias_manager.pl/>
> 
> and then to:
> 
> alias_manager     Template
> 
> In each case  /etc/sympa/sympa_transport was not recreated when I close and 
> reopen a list.
> 
> Incidentally I find that a file /var/lib/sympa/sympa_aliases has been 
> created - but only has configuration for the one
> list I closed and reopened. I thought this file was not used with virtual 
> domains so I am surprised to see it being created.
> 
> I really don't want to have to learn Perl to get this fixed.

Is /etc/sympa writeable by sympa user/group?

Regards
        Racke

> 
> Steve
> 
> 
> On Tue, 23 Jun 2020 at 16:44, Steve Fisher <address@concealed 
> <mailto:address@concealed>> wrote:
> 
>     Does anybody have any thoughts on where I should look to fix this 
> please?
> 
>     Steve
> 
>     On Sat, 20 Jun 2020 at 11:34, Steve Fisher <address@concealed 
> <mailto:address@concealed>> wrote:
> 
>         Thanks for the help. I have attached /etc/sympa/symp.conf (with the 
> db_passwd changed) is attached (but with a
>         .txt file extension)
> 
>         The actual hostname is stevefisher-test.org.uk 
> <http://stevefisher-test.org.uk> but in order to have the
>         list_data directory structure the same for all mail domains/robots 
> I put in an artificial domain. I tried
>         removing the domain line but then sympa won't start.
> 
>         I also attach the output of  "postfix -n" and of "postfix -M"
> 
>         The attached /etc/sympa/list_aliases.tt2 is as taken from the 
> documentation. I note that this file will never
>         generate subscribe aliases so I will uncomment that line in the 
> future.
> 
>         I have Fedora 33 and am using MySQL and postfix. I appreciate that 
> documenting sympa is difficult because of all
>         the possibilities. It might be useful to have an overview of how it 
> works included in the documentation.
> 
>         Steve
> 
>         On Sat, 20 Jun 2020 at 05:58, IKEDA Soji <address@concealed 
> <mailto:address@concealed>> wrote:
> 
>             Hi Steve,
> 
>             Could you please show us the settings of Postix and Sympa?
> 
>>             2020/06/20 9:55、Steve Fisher <address@concealed 
>> <mailto:address@concealed>>のメール:
>>
>>             
>>             I have now found that I can use sympa.pl <http://sympa.pl> 
>> --make_alias_file and copy the file to
>>             sympa_transport - but this is supposed to happen automatically.
>>
>>             Steve
>>
>>             On Fri, 19 Jun 2020 at 22:59, Steve Fisher 
>> <address@concealed <mailto:address@concealed>> wrote:
>>
>>                 I am trying to go from one mail domain to 3 following the 
>> instructions in the documentation. All seems
>>                 to be fine except that the file sympa_trasport remains 
>> empty. The documentation at 
>>                 
>> https://sympa-community.github.io/manual/install/configure-mail-server-postfix.html#virtual-domain-setting
>>  says
>>                 at the end of point 2:
>>
>>                 "By these settings, |sympa_transport| file will be updated 
>> automatically when any lists are created,
>>                 closed, restored or purged"
>>
>>                 I have tried reading some of the code but as a non-perl 
>> programmer I find it quite hard going. I have
>>                 turned the logging up, closed a list and then restored it 
>> to get 876 lines of log file which
>>                 is attached. Can anybody see what I am doing wrong please?
>>
>>                 Steve
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>


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