On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 09:38:12AM -0700, Seth wrote:
> I've been running several OpenSMPTD servers on OpenBSD for a while now
> without using the /etc/aliases file.
>
> I'm having issues however with annoying email being generated from the
> r...@mx.domain.tld and mailer-dae...@mx.domain.tld addresses which get stuck
> in the delivery queue because I don't have the systems configured to accept
> email at the mx.domain.tld subdomain.
>
Not quite sure I understand how this is related to aliases
> Maybe this is more of a question for the OpenBSD list, but I'm wondering if
> in this day and age, the '/etc/aliases' file is really just a dumb clunky
> sendmail throwback that needs to die in a fire and is unnecessary on modern
> OpenBSD/OpenSMTPD systems.
>
I don't know if you're talking about the aliases mechanism or the aliases
file itself, so I'll give you my opinion (fwiw) on this.
The aliases mechanism is not just a dumb clunky sendmail throwback, it has
use-cases that are very valid, that can't be achieved without aliases, and
that cannot be fullfilled with the "virtual" mechanism.
The /etc/aliases or /etc/mail/aliases file however is historical and comes
from a time where you would simply assume that one MX == one set of users.
I don't know about other MTA, but OpenSMTPD supporting per-domain userbase
we also had to support per-domain aliases mappings and so it does not make
sense to define one "aliases" file when there can be one per rule.
> If it's not necessary, is there anyway that I can force all system email
> generated for the root user to go to a designated email of my choosing,
> without having to use /etc/aliases and add the corresponding table and
> accept lines in smptd.conf? I can edit the cron /etc/daily|weekly|monthly
> scripts but that does not seem to address the smtpd daemon generated error
> messages.
>
something like (untested but you get the idea):
table myalias { root = gil...@poolp.org }
accept from any for any recipient root alias
> Curious to know how other OpenSMTPD users address 'the aliases' question.
>
I have /etc/mail/aliases-opensmtpd.org and used to also have
/etc/mail/aliases-poolp.org but no longer needed it
--
Gilles Chehade
https://www.poolp.org @poolpOrg
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