[Kroupware] Rebuilding Postfix Aliases

[Stephan Buys]

The best/cleanest way would be to add an extra hash map for your mailing lists
to main.cf.template.

virtual_maps = hash:/kolab/etc/postfix/virtual, hash:/kolab/etc/postfix/mail_lists

Create the file: /kolab/etc/postfix/mail_lists and add the entries as I mentioned
before.

Execute the following:
#/kolab/sbin/postmap /kolab/etc/postfix/mail_lists
#/kolab/etc/kolab/kolab -v -o

That should do it. This way you seperate the mailing lists from the alias fields.

In the future you can then just edit mail_lists and run:
#/kolab/sbin/postmap /kolab/etc/postfix/mail_lists
#/kolab/sbin/postfix reload

At the moment this is the cleanest way to do a mailing list.

Kind regards,
Stephan


On Friday 27 February 2004 13:22, Stefan Lang wrote:
> Did you know a better way??? I'm very interested in a clean solution!
> I know its dangerous to modify the ldap-DB and other config-files without 
> using the kolab-tools!
> 
> Stevie
> 
> Am Freitag, 27. Februar 2004 12:12 schrieb Stephan Buys:
> > Oh, you are adding multiple aliases in the Web interface. This is
> > incorrect. If you want to set up mailing lists you need to edit that file
> > manually.
> >
> > The kolab glue will not work correctly with multiple aliases in the aliases
> > field.
> >
> > On Friday 27 February 2004 13:05, Stefan Lang wrote:
> > > Am Freitag, 27. Februar 2004 11:54 schrieb Stephan Buys:
> > > > The format in the virtual map should be:
> > > >
> > > > operator at foo.bar	someuser1 at foo.bar	someuser2 at foo.bar
> > >
> > > But it isn't!! It's like I sayed before....
> > >
> > > .......and I never modified it manually, only with kolab!
> > >
> > > Stevie
> > >
> > > > You can use the postmap utility with the -q paramater to test your map.
> > > >
> > > > On Friday 27 February 2004 12:51, Stefan Lang wrote:
> > > > > But, then there is another bug or feature :-)
> > > > >
> > > > > I want to send one mail to multiple users, for example a mail to
> > > > > "operator at foo.bar" should be delivered to "someuser1 at foo.bar" and
> > > > > "someuser2 at foo.bar".
> > > > > I've smuggled some more aliases via LDIF-File into the LDAP-Database,
> > > > > and looked into virtual.db.
> > > > > The mail could only be delieverd to someuser1 at foo.bar because kolab
> > > > > only generates entries in "virtual" like that:
> > > > >
> > > > > operator at foo.bar  someuser1 at foo.bar
> > > > > operator at foo.bar  someuser2 at foo.bar
> > > > >
> > > > > So postfix finds the first matching entry and aborts its seek!
> > > > >
> > > > > The "correct" entry should be:
> > > > > operator at foo.bar  someuser1 at foo.bar, someuser2 at foo.bar
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm using the wrong mechanism? Please excuse me, when I'm totally
> > > > > wrong!
> > > > >
> > > > > Stevie
> > >
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