On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 07:56:40AM +0100, Ansgar Wiechers wrote:
> On 2009-11-17 LuKreme wrote:
> > Here's a How-To from about 2003? specifically showing
> > /etc/postfix/aliases as the preferred and default setting.
> >
> > <http://www.hmug.org/UnixHowTos/index.php?postfix>
Without bothering to look at the site, I am going to suggest that is
not official Postfix documentation.
> > > Postfix keeps its version in /etc/postfix/aliases.
>
> It's neither preferred, nor default, for Postfix on both Debian
> GNU/Linux and Mac OS X.
>
> r...@iridium:~ # postconf -d | grep ^alias_maps
> alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases, nis:mail.aliases
My pasted value, on Slackware (installed from source), was also from
"postconf -d alias_maps". Anyone who is giving advice which relies
upon non-default Postfix settings is misleading other posters, and
thus should be corrected. There was absolutely no indication in this
thread that the OP should have used /etc/postfix/aliases, and yet
that advice was given: authoritative-sounding but probably wrong.
A distributor's non-default settings as shipped in their main.cf are
still that: non-default settings.
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