Re: [Exim] aliases

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Author: Michael Johnson
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To: Kirill Miazine
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] aliases
On Dec 24, 2003, at 12:31 PM, Kirill Miazine wrote:

> * Michael Johnson [2003-12-24 12:09]:
>> I have an exim installation on an OS X machine. I'm running mailman on
>> the same machine and have an /etc/aliases file set up (duplicated at
>> /etc/mail/aliases and /etc/postfix/aliases just in case).
>
> What case? At least, get rid of /etc/postfix/aliases. You're not
> running
> Postfix, are you?
>

In case I decide to go back. I really like Exim better and have been
running it on my main machine. The list machine was running sendmail
until the recent update to OS X changed it to Postfix which I don't
like although I can't really quantify why.

>> I've tried changing the user from exim, to smmsp, to mailman, and a
>> few
>> others I can't remember. I've tried with and without the group
>> setting.
>
> The user does not matter, the group does. What did you specify as gid
> with --with-mail-gid when configuring Mailman?


The group I used was mailman. Should I remove the user setting there
and add the "group = mailman" setting back in?

> What do the logs say (Exim's mainlog and Mailman's error log)?
>

It doesn't even get to mailman and in the mainlog, several identical
entries except for the message ID and timestamp:

2003-12-24 08:00:09 HQEHG9-0001MI-BO ** mailman@smudette
<mailman-bounces@smudette> R=mailman_router T=mailman_transport: Child
process of mailman_transport transport returned 127 (could mean unable
to exec or command does not exist) from command:
/usr/local/mailman/mail/wrapper

> FYI
>
>     http://www.no.exim.org/howto/mailman.html (Exim 3, old stuff)
>     http://www.no.exim.org/howto/mailman21.html

>
> See config sample C042 for a HOWTO on how to make Exim 4 and Mailman
> 2.0
> work together.
>

I'll take another look at these to double check my settings.

-Michael