How do I set up an email Group?

I have made a group called "Accounts" and a different group called "Sales" each with a different set of members. But when I try to send an email to [email protected] it is not recognised y the serveer as a valid email address.
I can't find where to enable email for the groups I would really appreciate some help on this. My Cobalt Qube has given up the ghost and I have bought this xServe as a replacement although it appears to be overkill for what I want to do. My Qube was 5 years old and a lot easier to configure!

Unfortunately, 10.4 server does not use groups as valid email recipients. 10.3 DID but not 10.4.
Two ways to handle it...
Easiest way if only a few people need the group and you use Apple Mail... use Address Book... make a group (e.g. "accounts"), add the users you want to be in the group (ensuring they have email addresses set). Now send an email simply to: "accounts". Mail app will put it into bold type indicating it has recognised it as a group & will expand this to be all the users in that group. They all receive an email with the recipient shown as "accounts@yourdomain" - you do not get a list of all the members (so good for privacy).
Method 2 uses edited group files on the server, so useful for central control of members...
The following sends to members of groups but does not show all recipients in the received message...
In /etc/postfix/aliases, add...
groupname: :include:/path/to/groupname.txt
-that's a space between the first two colons.
In a file called groupname.txt (using plaintext editor)...
[email protected]
[email protected]
(Check permissions - ideally 644 root:wheel)
Reload aliases...
sudo newaliases
sudo postalias aliases
sudo postfix reload
Mail sent to [email protected] gets passed to amavisd once, before then being relayed out for each individual recipient.
Mail.log shows "to=<[email protected]>, orig_to=<[email protected]>", for each outgoing mail.
The recipient sees the To: field as being [email protected] Extended headers show "Delivered-To:" headers for both the groupname and that individual recipient. It does not show every recipient.
-david

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