[sclug] Problem with postfix & maildrop

[Keith Edmunds]

Darren Davison wrote:
> the location of the aliases file is determined in /etc/postfix/main.cf
> Mine is /etc/mail/aliases but I think this may be gentoo specific rather
> than a postfix default.

That's certainly an unusual place: usually it is /etc/postfix/aliases or 
/etc/aliases

> darren at bacall darren $ grep ^alias_database /etc/postfix/main.cf
> alias_database = hash:/etc/mail/aliases

That's not strictly correct, although it often will give the correct 
answer. alias_database points to the binary form of the database, 
normally generated by the 'newaliases' command. The file pointed to by 
'alias_maps' is the input to that command, and is the file that should 
be edited.

A better way of determining precisely which file to edit is to do the 
following as root:

# postconf -d | grep alias_maps

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Keith Edmunds

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