Postfix.py and aliases (#CREATED:xxx)
Bug #266326 reported by
Eawf
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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GNU Mailman |
New
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
CentOS4.2 Installed Mailman2.1.5 via YUM.
Postfix
Configured Automatic aliases file creation.
When creating list from ./newlist, no problems.
When creating list from web, got bug page, and
discovered an alias entry, "#CREATED:...".
While not being a Python programmer, glancing through
the Postfix.py file, it looks like when looping through
the STANZA section to create the aliases file, the
commented #CREATED: line isn't ignored, causing the
record to be created.
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Both bin/newlist and the Cgi create script invoke the exact MTA/Postfix. py module to update the aliases.
same Mailman/
The only difference is the user/group under which it runs.
Thus, this is most likely a problem with the 'mailman' group
not having write permission on data/aliases*. Both
data/aliases and data/aliases.db should be group owned by
the 'mailman' group and be group writable.
This may be FAQ 6.9 - www.python. org/cgi- bin/faqw- mm.py?req= show&file= faq06.009. htp
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If this is not a permissions issue, please post the
traceback from the "bug" from Mailman's error log.
Note that the "#CREATED:" line in the aliases file is a
comment and is intended to be there.