Help Deleting a OD Group Email That Won't Go Away

Question

I seem to have a ghost and I could use help finding it...
There was a Open Directory Group that at some point an admin checked to enable the "Mailing list" for this group within Workgroup Manager (might have been back in 10.4). This group has since been deleted from OD yet the email group persists....somewhere. Do you know where? I sure don't.
Sometime after this group was deleted it was recreated but as a Mailman mailing list that effectively had the exact same name and that is when we started to notice that messages sent to "[email protected]" were not going to everyone included in the Mailman mailing list. Further investigation proved that the Mailman list was working 100% and that the messages simply never were received by Mailman. Yet, the messages were getting delivered to some users on the list. I realized after a month of this that it was being delivered to the users who were included in the old OD group. We have since deleted this Mailman mailing list and it is truly gone but the ghost list persists.
I've searched everywhere I can think of to track down this mysterious mailing list so I can purge it completely.
Besides just poking around the file system on both the mail server and the OD server I tried searching the directory using dscl but found nothing.
/LDAPv3/127.0.0.1 > search . mail collections
We have a work in progress of moving accounts over to a new Kerio Mail Server but note that the problem pre-dates the introduction of this server into our network environment.
Here's a little bit about the servers and network:
- Master, Xserve intel, Server OS 10.5.8, DHCP, DNS, AFP shares, a few home directories
- Apple Mail Server, Mac mini, Server OS 10.5.8, stock server install w/ cyrus, Mailman, postfix, etc.
- Additional mail server - Kerio Mail Server 6.7, Xserve intel, server OS 10.6.2, just Kerio
Here's some example log entries that tells me the message is going through our current primary mail server and not some other server on our network:
59
5/10/10
2:24:57.000 PM
May 10 14:24:57 192.168.168.212 May 10 14:24:57 mail2 postfix/pipe[53910]: 2CB0B1835B07: to=<[email protected]>, orig_to=<[email protected]>, relay=cyrus, delay=7.1, delays=0.01/0/0/7.1, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered via cyrus service)
host=192.168.168.212 Options| sourcetype=syslog Options| source=udp:514 Options
62
5/10/10
2:24:50.000 PM
May 10 14:24:50 192.168.168.212 May 10 14:24:50 mail2 postfix/smtp[53683]: 5DA951835AEB: to=<[email protected]>, relay=127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1]:10024, delay=0.86, delays=0.3/0/0/0.56, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 2.0.0 Ok: queued as 2CB0B1835B07)
host=192.168.168.212 Options| sourcetype=syslog Options| source=udp:514 Options
If you think you have an idea what's going one and need more info just let me know.

Answer 1

Hi
If I've understood correctly deleting users and/or groups from WorkGroup Manager does not delete associated Mailboxes. You could try:
http://osx.topicdesk.com/content/view/46/62/
Most of us here over the years have favoured SirAdmin (rather than cyrusadmin) which works with 10.3, 10.5 and 10.5.
HTH?
Tony