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Package: courier-mta
Version: 0.45.4-3
Severity: normal
Tags: sid
I did a dumb thing, and it cost me my aliases file. Fortunately, it was
small and could be reconstructed from 'makealiases -dump'
According to the courier documentation, aliases are found in
/etc/courier/aliases. This can be either a file or a directory; if it's
a directory then all files contained in there are used.
I'm using courier for my home mail server, and the extra bit of typing
when editing /etc/couier/aliases/system was bothering me, so I foolishly
made a copy of /etc/courier/aliases/system, deleted
/etc/courier/aliases/, and then moved the copy to form
/etc/courier/aliases. Running makealiases worked, and everything was
happy. Until I upgraded to 0.45.4-3. When that happened, it deleted
/etc/courier/aliases and created an empty directory in its place.
That's kind of anti-social.
Is there an easy way to keep this from happening? It's clearly a "don't
do that then" type bug for the user (me), but it'd be nice to get a
warning, or keep a copy of the alias file or *something*.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.25
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages courier-mta depends on:
ii courier-authdaemon 0.45.4-1 Courier Mail Server - Authenticati
ii courier-base 0.45.4-3 Courier Mail Server - Base system
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgcc1 1:3.3.3-5 GCC support library
ii libgdbm3 1.8.3-2 GNU dbm database routines (runtime
ii libperl5.8 5.8.4-2 Shared Perl library.
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.3-5 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
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I am going to close this bug report as there was no response to my previous
email. Please feel free to reopen it if you are still experiencing this
problem.
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Soren Stoutner
[email protected]
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