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Package: postfix
Version: 0.0.19991231pl11-2
Severity: normal
1.) "rm -f /etc/aliases.db"
2.) "newaliases"
both is terrible wrong.
first, you have only an assumption what /etc/aliases.db is, and
an assumption that you can delete and regenerate it. both is wrong,
the file could be something different or a not-so-easy to generate file.
second, you think that newaliases will regenerate the alias file.
this is the bigger problem, because this acutaly fails.
i moved aliases to /etc/postfix, which is absolutely legal, and
thus newaliases has to be called with that file as parameter.
also, you don't know if i have a db file aliases at all - a textfile
would not need "newaliases".
so, either parse the config file, or don't do all this magic at all.
currently it is broken.
my personal opinion is:
please don't try to be smart, it always fails.
i have seen lots and lots and lots of "smart" mechanism fail.
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Hi,
These bugs are way too old and do not apply anymore.
Hence, I'm closing them.
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#41030 - example is not applicable anymore
#57290 - obsolete
#70572 - aesthetical problem, wontfix
#96201 - oqmgr is no longer the default; Moreover, this was fixed
#96896 - fixed upstream long ago
#109218 - this no longer seems to be the case; It doesn't necessarily
need to be Postfix who does it, anyway
#130487 - has been fixed for ages in more recent packages
#155347 - not applicable anymore (Potato->Woody)
#168004 - unreproducible, and way too old to be relevant anymore
#133586 - proxymap exists now; using PAM for SASL authentication is
uncommon and mostly deprecated now
#144541 - recipient_delimiter works just fine for quite a while now...
#155644 - unreproducible
#157948 - unreproducible
#176677 - user configuration error
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Thanks lamont, once again, for maintaining Postfix -- you simply
make all mail admins' lives much easier :-)
J.L.
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