[Gllug] 'newaliases' weirdness

[Martin A. Brooks]

On Sun, November 7, 2010 11:08, gvim wrote:
> On 5th November, on Centos 5.5, I changed an entry in /etc/aliases from:
>
> joeblogs:         joeblogs at yahoo.co.uk
>
> .... to:
>
> joeblogs:        joeblogs at gmail.com
>
> ... and ran `newaliases` and `service postfix restart` in time-honoured
> fashion.
>
>   All was well apart from 2 emails which went out the following day to the
> old yahoo.co.uk alias, which I can't fathom.

I think you need to run "postalias aliases".  Also "service blah
stop|start|restart" is a redhatism.

If you're using a sensible MTA (i.e. Exim) then there's none of this
newaliases nonsense.  You just edit /etc/aliases and you're done.


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