Hello there,
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Sébastien Luttringer <[email protected]>wrote:
> Nothing wrong with this substitution. opensmtpd alias config file should
> be inside opensmtpd configuration directory.
It shouldn't. At least, in Debian and Fedora.
> In archlinux, postfix uses /etc/postfix/aliases, exim use
> /etc/mail/aliases. If you want an aliases file in /etc, all the code
> handling this will (creation, conflict between package, path fixes)
> should be in your distribution, not in the upstream package.
>
I have no idea what specific they do in Archlinux, but in Debian and
Fedora/RHEL there are neither symlinks nor dedicated `aliases` by each mail
server. From Debian postfix default configuration (`/etc/postfix/main.cf`):
--
alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases
alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases
--
>From Debian exim default configuration file:
---
# This router handles aliasing using a traditional /etc/aliases file.
#
##### NB You must ensure that /etc/aliases exists. It used to be the case
##### NB that every Unix had that file, because it was the Sendmail
default.
##### NB These days, there are systems that don't have it. Your aliases
##### NB file should at least contain an alias for "postmaster".
...
system_aliases:
debug_print = "R: system_aliases for $local_part@$domain"
driver = redirect
domains = +local_domains
allow_fail
allow_defer
data = ${lookup{$local_part}lsearch{/etc/aliases}}
...
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The same in Fedora and RHEL, I don't even need to check its behavior.
If I put my opensmtpd configuration in /config/opensmtpd, I don't expect
> ./configure try to write something in /etc!
>
Right now Debian package uses `/etc/smtpd.conf` (
http://packages.debian.org/en/sid/amd64/opensmtpd/filelist )
They don't have the problem we are discussing because they have everything
in `/etc`. If they decide to change configuration directory, they face the
same issue.
> If you have kind of legacy to handle, maybe a symlink can help you.
>
I would be a little patch that fixes substitution there where it isn't
needed.
---
wbr, Denis.
