[Mageia-sysadm] aliases system and postfix

Tue Mar 8 22:56:08 CET 2011

On 8.3.2011 23:50, Michael Scherer wrote:
+> Hi,
+>
+> As said previously ( in svn commit log ) and as announced since a long
+> time, the aliases @mageia.org have been deployed.
+>
+> After careful reading of the whole postfix documentation and proper
+> meditation, I was able to do it in 30 minutes ( yes, after telling I
+> would need to be very careful ). There is likely some stuff to change
+> ( use virtual_aliases_maps instead of aliases_maps etc ), but it work.
+>
+> So far, the only group to have aliases is the mga-founders one, but
+> there is plan to add others.
+>
+> In order to do that :
+> - edit modules/postfix/manifests/init.pp
+> - seek aliases_group variables
+> - add the ldap group to the end
+> - commit
+>
+>
+> What is left to do :
+>
+> - find a way to map root@ to the sysadmin group, press@ to the comm
+> team, and same for contact at .
+> ( I was on it, but this requires to deploy a whole subdomain
+> team.mageia.org, and there is surely a better way )
+>
+
+Isn't this a matter of simply altering /etc/postfix/aliases and exec 
+newaliases to regen the aliases db ?
+
+
+> - make sure that a secondary mx is installed and working
+>
+> - make sure that a secondary ldap is deployed
+>
+> - move the mx to alamut
+>
+> - decide who can get a aliases now, and write documentation and warn
+> team for that
+>
+>
+> I will send a email to founders@ later, once I have checked SPF and
+> others stuff like this ( ie, check that we can reasonably use aliases
+> without much trouble )
+
+