Re: smtpd aliases file issue

Just for the record using a flat "file" for aliases you don't need to run newaliases. ⁣Sent from BlueMail ​ On May 11, 2017, 2:30 AM, at 2:30 AM, Gilles Chehade wrote: >Much better :-) > >You don’t need to restart the daemon, you simply need to tell it >through smtpctl that

Re: smtpd aliases file issue

Thanks Giles. Regards. -- ~ajitabhpandey On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 12:59 PM, Gilles Chehade wrote: > Much better :-) > > You don’t need to restart the daemon, you simply need to tell it through > smtpctl that the table aliases needs to be reloaded: > > $ doas smtpctl

Re: smtpd aliases file issue

Much better :-) You don’t need to restart the daemon, you simply need to tell it through smtpctl that the table aliases needs to be reloaded: $ doas smtpctl update table aliases Gilles > On 11 May 2017, at 08:17, Ajitabh Pandey wrote: > > Hi Gilles, > > I

Re: smtpd aliases file issue

Obviously you don’t need to restart the daemon to pickup new aliases. If you are using a plain file aliases map it can be reloaded atomically at runtime using smtpctl. If you are using a db file, it can be rebuilt using the newaliases / makemap utility. I can’t tell you which one to use

Re: smtpd aliases file issue

Hi Gilles, I did not change anything from the default. But I realise all may not be using default file like me and may not know what is in it. Here is a copy of the contents just for reference. The problem is solved by restarting the smtpd as sugested by Edgar. $ doas cat /etc/mail/smtpd.conf

Re: smtpd aliases file issue

Thanks Edgar. That worked. This is what I was missing. I actually removed my .forward from the user01 account now and directly updated the aliases file to forward email to external email address. Just for documentation purpose, here are the steps - $ doas vi /etc/mail/aliases file $ doas

Re: smtpd aliases file issue

On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 04:32:55PM +0530, Ajitabh Pandey wrote: > > If my understanding about how this should work incorrect? If not then what > am I doing wrong? > What you are doing wrong is not showing your configuration file so we're able to check if it does what you think it is doing --

Re: smtpd aliases file issue

Did you restart smtpd? ⁣Sent from BlueMail ​ On May 10, 2017, 6:03 AM, at 6:03 AM, Ajitabh Pandey wrote: >Hello, > >On an OpenBSD 6.1, I have default smtpd setup. > >I placed a .forward file in root's home and am able to receive the >emails >on an external address. >

smtpd aliases file issue

Hello, On an OpenBSD 6.1, I have default smtpd setup. I placed a .forward file in root's home and am able to receive the emails on an external address. I then removed the .forward from root's home and then placed a .forward in the home directory of normal user account (say user01). Emails