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Tech Board Automailer
Tuesday October 28, @12:49PM, by Clayton Carter
Subject : MailHost
from the no-show dept.
Summary :
The automatic mails from the tech-board don't seem to be working.
Text :
MailHost is properly configured, it seems, from the root /manage. It points to green-rainbow.org port 25. Never the less, t'ain't workin'.

Clayton
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Re: Tech Board Automailer
Tuesday October 28, @01:02PM, by Clayton Carter

> The automatic mails from the tech-board don't seem to be working.

Another clue appears in the maillogs:

Oct 28 01:27:41 green-rainbow postfix/local [27374]: 4C7487A78: to=, relay=local, delay=0, status=bounced (unknown user: "techblog")

I'm slowly creeping to an answer on this one, but I don't know postfix, so be patient.

Clayton

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Re: Tech Board Automailer
Tuesday October 28, @01:07PM, by Clayton Carter
> I'm slowly creeping to an answer on this one, but I don't know postfix, so be patient.

OK, got it. After updating the aliases file, we didn't run `newaliases'. I just tried to do this, but I don't have access to write to /etc/aliases.db .

So we need a little help from root here. Not only to run `newaliases', but to give group wheel write access to /etc/aliases.db for future updates.

Thanks,
Clayton
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Re: Tech Board Automailer
Wednesday October 29, @01:36AM, by Daniel Melnechuk
> > I'm slowly creeping to an answer on this one, but I don't know postfix, so be patient.
>
> OK, got it. After updating the aliases file, we didn't run `newaliases'. I just tried to do this, but I don't have access to write to /etc/aliases.db .
>
> So we need a little help from root here. Not only to run `newaliases', but to give group wheel write access to /etc/aliases.db for future updates.

Done. And this post will be a test...

Thank you Clayton.
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