[vox-tech] postfix mailman

Eric Engelhard eric at cvbig.org
Thu Oct 19 17:50:26 PDT 2006


Hi Wade,

Did you run the newlalias command after you editted /etc/aliases?

Is it possible that there is another entomologist on this list? :)

Eric

On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 05:15:31PM -0700, Wade Pinkston wrote:
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> Hello,
> 
> I'm new to the list and apparently a week late but I am in desperate
> need of help with my mail/mailman server.
> 
> I'm not sure where the problem lies but first off I cant get post fix to
> send mail from the correct virtual domain.
> 
> The server has a domain name of
> 
> "extent0006.entomology.ohio-state.edu"
> and a virtual name of
> "bugs.osu.edu
> 
> I want all the mail to appear to be from user at bugs.osu.edu not
> extent00.... (for obvious reasons)
> 
> 
> secondly when ever I create a mailing list in mail man and try to send
> mail to it I get this:
> 
> data format error. Command output: ****: Mailbox does not exist
> 
> Google insists this is an aliasing issue and I can believe it but I can
> see that the lists are listed in /etc/mailman/aliases
> 
> but along with that postfix doesn't seem to be paying any attention to
> /etc/aliases since I'm not getting any root email sent to my aliased
> address.
> 
> I understand that this is confusing and I would be more then willing to
> share any config or files.
> 
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