From: Matt Morgan (minxmertzmomogmail.com)
Date: Tue Jan 10 2006 - 17:05:06 CST

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On 1/10/06, Magnus Bäck <magnusdsek.lth.se> wrote:
> On Tuesday, January 10, 2006 at 22:33 CET,
> Matt Morgan <minxmertzmomogmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to set up mailman on an OS X server that I don't have a lot
> > of control over. It appears to have the default installation of
> > postfix that comes with OS X 10.3.9. I'm not a postfix expert by any
> > means, but I think I've done everything typical yet I cannot get
> > postfix to notice and act upon aliases in /etc/aliases.
> >
> > For example, if I run
> >
> > mail -s"test" minxmertzmomogmail.com < sometextfile
> >
> > I get the file in my inbox. But when I edited /etc/aliases as below:
> >
> > matt: minxmertzmomogmail.com
> >
> > then ran newaliases (and reloaded postfix for good measure), the command
> >
> > mail -s"test" matt < sometextfile
> >
> > does not work. Instead, the alias is ignored and the message sits in
> > the 'defer' area of the queue:
> >
> > cca:/private/var/spool/postfix/defer/2 root# cat 20DD57E741
> > <mattcca.thisdomain.org>: connect to
> > cca.thisdomain.org[192.168.1.56]: Connection refused
>
> Why does Postfix connect to that host? What is the name of your host?
> What is the output from "postconf -n"?
>
> Either you haven't listed the domain in question in mydestination,
> or your transport table messes things up.
>
> [...]
>

That host is the localhost. It looks to me like postfix is attempting
local delivery, despite the alias. But I could be wrong about that.

Here's the output from postconf -n:

cca:/usr/share/mailman/Mailman root# postconf -n
always_bcc =
command_directory = /usr/sbin
config_directory = /etc/postfix
daemon_directory = /usr/libexec/postfix
debug_peer_level = 2
enable_server_options = yes
inet_interfaces = all
luser_relay = cborkowskiguggenheim.org
mail_owner = postfix
mailbox_transport = cyrus
mailq_path = /usr/bin/mailq
manpage_directory = /usr/share/man
maps_rbl_domains =
message_size_limit = 10240000
mydestination = $myhostname,localhost.$mydomain
mydomain = steve.museum
mydomain_fallback = localhost
myhostname = cca
mynetworks = 127.0.0.1/32
mynetworks_style = host
myorigin = $mydomain
newaliases_path = /usr/bin/newaliases
queue_directory = /private/var/spool/postfix
readme_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix
relayhost =
sample_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix/examples
sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail
setgid_group = postdrop
smtpd_client_restrictions =
smtpd_enforce_tls = no
smtpd_pw_server_security_options = gssapi
smtpd_recipient_restrictions =
permit_sasl_authenticated,permit_mynetworks,reject_unauth_destination,permit
smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes
smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/postfix/server.pem
smtpd_tls_loglevel = 0
smtpd_use_pw_server = yes
smtpd_use_tls = yes
unknown_local_recipient_reject_code = 450

Thanks,
Matt

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