Uhmmm, I just enabled that out of curiosity after reading the mail from
Danilo, and everything went fine, here is how I did it:

equo install postfix
rc-update add postfix default
/etc/init.d/postfix start

after noticing some complaining about /etc/aliases.db in my
/var/log/messages
I read some man pages:
man postfix
man postalias
man newaliases

then I created my /etc/aliases file using:
touch /etc/aliases
I created /etc/aliases.db running:
newaliases
and restarted postfix:
/etc/init.d/postfix restart

and it seems to work, I sent 2 or 3 emails for testing, they were
happily delivered.
The strange thing is that it does not look like /etc/aliases.db was
created, probably because my /etc/aliases is empty...

Il giorno mer, 14/09/2011 alle 11.12 -0500, Mitch Harder ha scritto:
> I hate to write about problems I've had without working on solutions,
> but in the past I've had issues with simply "enabling" postfix without
> diving into the setup.
> 
> When I just added starting postfix with rc_update, I accumulated about
> 1 Gig of undelivered mail in the mail cache after a period of usage (I
> do make use of cron jobs).
> 
> Obviously, the default configuration is insufficient, and I apologize
> for not having sorted the issue out.
> 
> If anybody is feeling inspired, let us know how postfix is working for
> you now in the default configuration, and what we may need to
> implement to have it working 'ootb' if enabled without filling your fs
> with undelivered mail.
> 


-- 
Lorenzo Cogotti


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