Vince Sabio wrote:
> I have an 'old' alias file in /etc/aliases (linked to
> /etc/mail/aliases) that seems to be working fine; I haven't changed it
> in years. Since that time, I have upgraded to postfix 2.5.1.
>
> This morning, I added a new entry to the alias table, and ran
> newaliases without error. I also did a "postfix reload". But the alias
> is not being recognized; mail sent to the alias (from the localhost)
> goes to the dead.letter file.
>
> I have the following entry in my main.cf:
>
> alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases
>
> Note: There is a "default" aliases file in /usr/local/etc/postfix/
> which seems to have been installed with 2.5.1, but newaliases appears
> to be using the one in /etc/ (based on how postfix is routing mail).
> Is there any way to check which alias file is being used?
>
'man 1 newaliases' says:
newaliases
Initialize the alias database. If no input file is
specified
(with the -oA option, see below), the program
processes the
file(s) specified with the alias_database configuration
parame-
ter.
That command is for backwards compatibility purposes.
It is better practice to run 'postalias hash:/etc/aliases' (for your
case) especially if you don't have alias_database set.
Brian
