On 9/3/2009 6:28 PM, Henri Shustak wrote:
Thank you to everyone who provided assistance with regards sub-domain
aliases. The mailman mailing lists are working great now!
Finally, what are your general thoughts on being able to include
non-local addresses in the /etc/aliases file? Before, I sign up to the
developer mailing list I would like some feed back about this from
people who have more experience with the way postfix works.
After all, there could be a good reason that this file is only for local
mail. If anyone is able to explain why this is file is only for dealing
with local mail then I would be be most interested to know more.
You all provided great feed back. The postfix mailman community is very
helpful which is a really good for this kind of project.
Thank you again!
Before you sign up for the developer mail list, read its
purpose on the http://www.postfix.org/lists.html page.
"NOT for questions, problem reports and feature requests;"
Addresses listed in alias_maps are expanded during delivery by
the local(8) delivery agent. This is the only postfix process
that expands these aliases. As a result, only local usernames
(ie. the user part of any domain listed in $mydestination) are
valid in the local alias table.
This is for both sendmail(TM) compatibility and for security.
If you need to rewrite arbitrary addresses, use the
virtual_alias_maps feature.
These design features are not likely to change.
For further details, see
http://www.postfix.org/aliases.5.html
http://www.postfix.org/local.8.html
http://www.postfix.org/OVERVIEW.html
and the list archives.
-- Noel Jones
