Re: Qmail, smail and sendmail
Ian Jackson writes: Yves Arrouye writes (Qmail, smail and sendmail): Does qmail support /etc/aliases, have a newaliases command and support being called as sendmail with the -bi option? The same questions may be asked for smail. Well, perhaps we should just say that you can edit /etc/aliases and must run newaliases afterwards if it exists. That's what I do. I even run sendmail -bi if newaliases is not found. But I wanted to be sure that all mail packages do provide the same user way of defining aliases, even if they manage them differently after that. Yves.
Re: Qmail, smail and sendmail
Yves Arrouye writes (Re: Qmail, smail and sendmail): ... That's what I do. I even run sendmail -bi if newaliases is not found. But I wanted to be sure that all mail packages do provide the same user way of defining aliases, even if they manage them differently after that. I'll specify in the mail processing section of the polcy manual: tt/etc/aliases/ is the source file for the system mail aliases (e.g. postmaster, usenet, etc.) - it is the one which the sysadmin and postinst scripts may edit. After tt/etc/aliases/ is edited the program or human editing it must call prgn/newaliases/. All MTA packages should come with a prgn/newaliases/ program, even if it does nothing, but older MTA packages do not do this so programs should not fail if prgn/newaliases/ cannot be found. p Ian.
Qmail, smail and sendmail
I'd like to know if there's a qmail Debian package, and how aliases work in qmail: the Apache package used to add an alias to /etc/aliases and then run sendmail -bi (or newaliases). Does qmail support /etc/aliases, have a newaliases command and support being called as sendmail with the -bi option? The same questions may be asked for smail. Is the answer is no, can you please email me some doc? And maybe we'll have to write an install-mail-alias command used by packages script, in this case. Yves.
