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  • From: Steve Fisher <address@concealed>
  • To: "Stefan Hornburg (Racke)" <address@concealed>
  • Cc: address@concealed
  • Subject: Re: [sympa-users] Populating sympa_transport
  • Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2020 20:53:59 +0100

Racke,

Yes it is owned by syma:sympa

]# ls -lF /etc/sympa -d
drwxr-xr-x 15 sympa sympa 4096 Jun 26 01:58 /etc/sympa/

Steve

On Fri, 26 Jun 2020 at 12:52, Stefan Hornburg (Racke) <address@concealed> wrote:
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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