On Sun, 15 Jul 2018 17:59:58 -0700, Scott Vanderbilt wrote: > In /etc/mail/aliases, there is the following note: > > # >>>>>>>>>> The program "newaliases" must be run after > # >> NOTE >> this file is updated for any changes to > # >>>>>>>>>> show through to smtpd.
That is correct. > Yet the man page for newaliases(8) says: > > Note: this utility is provided for sendmail compatibility. The > preferred way of rebuilding the database is withmakemap(8) > <https://man.openbsd.org/makemap.8>: This is bad advices that should be removed. It is only true if using db files for aliases. When using a flat file for aliases, you should use newaliases, which will notify smtpd that the file has changed. > Taking the note in the man page at face value, I would expect that the > note in /etc/mail/aliases is now out-of-date, is it not? Or am I > overlooking something? It is the other way around. - todd
