I just spent about five hours banging my head against a wall trying to figure out why my mailman install wasn't working; the messages to the mailing list were getting bounced with no such user. Tracing the local delivery agent I saw that it wasn't looking at the mailman aliases file even though I could clearly see it in my definition of alias_maps in the section of the postfix main.cf file where it talks about alias_maps. Finally I thought to run postconf -n on alias_maps, and indeed the mailman aliases were not there. But I could see the definition. Finally in desperation I grepped the /etc/postfix directory looking for anywhere else alias_maps might be being set, and there it was, near the bottom of the file among a bunch of other overrides. If it is being overriden, I think it should be done at the location in the main.cf file where the comments mention it, where a user (experienced with postfix or not) would expect to find it. It would have saved me five hours and a lot of frustration. I suspect the other defines in that section ought to be moved, too, but I haven't looked at them in detail. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. postfix-2.1.5-r2
I can confirm this one. Also spent a lot of time till I figured out there were two alias_maps in main.cf. Why is this one solved in such a way? IIRC, the original postfix main.cf does not contain two alias_maps parameters. BTW: I wrote the solution in the mailman-users list, so it should be "google"able now. Best regards Jan
It's a postconf bug rather... postconf doesn't see the #alias_maps = whatever lines, so it just adds a new one at the end of the file instead of uncommenting or adding it next to them. Maybe we should install a minimal main.cf file and install a main.cf.commented or main.cf.distrib or something like that. langthang, what do you think ? Cheers, Ferdy
(In reply to comment #2) > It's a postconf bug rather... postconf doesn't see the > > #alias_maps = whatever > > lines, so it just adds a new one at the end of the file instead of > uncommenting > or adding it next to them. > > Maybe we should install a minimal main.cf file and install a main.cf.commented > or main.cf.distrib or something like that. And what about just uncommenting one "alias_maps" line before installing? Shouldn't be too difficult. Installing a minimal uncommented main.cf reminds me on SuSE and YaST... One likes to edit such a file and never remembers why what changed and why it doesn't work afterwards... > Cheers, > Ferdy Best regards Jan
(In reply to comment #3) > And what about just uncommenting one "alias_maps" line before installing? > Shouldn't be too difficult. I don't say it's difficult... in fact it is pretty easy. But postconf is (should) the way to go. > Installing a minimal uncommented main.cf reminds me on SuSE and YaST... One > likes to edit such a file and never remembers why what changed and why it > doesn't work afterwards... I normally use postconf to edit postfix config.. If you know what you do / edit, then there is no problem using a minimal config file (imho). Cheers, Ferdy
in postfix-2.3 ebuild, we patched the hardcoded ALIAS_DB_MAP in src/util/sys_defs.h. We can remove: "alias_maps=hash:/etc/mail/aliases" \ "alias_database=hash:/etc/mail/aliases" \ but there are still mail_spool_directory= home_mailbox= need to be fixed by run postconf. Sooner or later someone will file another bug to complain about them too. Why don't you guy take this upstream?
the latest stable postfix doesn't insert "alias_*" line into /etc/potsfix/main.cf anymore. Close this bug then. Please reopen if you disagree.
