On Saturday 24 September 2011 21:04:41 Phill Edwards wrote: > I ended up fixing the problem by running: > # touch /etc/aliases > # newaliases > > Shouldn't postfix create a default aliases file? Or at least > include a sample one somewhere as part of the install?
Where did you look? A source install of Postfix using default paths places an /etc/postfix/aliases file. If you want to use that rather than one provided by your OS, you would have to set alias_maps accordingly. And in either case you must run newaliases before starting Postfix. -- Offlist mail to this address is discarded unless "/dev/rob0" or "not-spam" is in Subject: header