Re: Bought Book

On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Kevin Reiter wrote:

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tom Diehl" <tdiehl@rogueind.com>
> To: "Kevin Reiter" <kevin@njcs-online.net>
> Cc: <postfix-users@postfix.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 12:09 AM
> Subject: Re: Bought Book
>
>
>
> > Assuming that your alias_database parameter is set to
> > hash:/usr/local/etc/aliases it probably created a file called
> > /usr/local/etc/aliases.db. If you have it set to something else than it
> > will be differet.
>
> It was set to hash:/usr/local/etc/postfix/aliases, but the file wasn't
> created, which is why I kept running it (after making changes to
> /etc/aliases) - I didn't know what I was doing wrong...

If your aliases file is in /etc/aliases and your alias_database parameter
is set to hash:/usr/local/etc/postfix/aliases then of course it will not work.
How can newalias know where to look for the aliases. the aliases file must be
in the place specified in the config file. Main.cf must contain the correct
paths to the files it needs to work.

> Why we're on the subject, some clarification would help me out greatly on
> this one. Do I need aliases AND lookup tables (ex: canonical) or just one
> or the other? That whole part is confusing the hell out of me, and I can't
> find anything on Google that gives me a solid answer. Keep in mind there's
> only 1 user on this system right now that will be using this mail server
> (me) so I don't need an entire database for user aliases (I don't think I
> do, anyway.)

You only need aliases for a simple installation.

HTH,

..............Tom