[Mageia-sysadm] aliases system and postfix

[Thomas Backlund]

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 )