> With all the problems that I'm having with my Postfix setup, I am taking a > deeper dive into the meaning of each parameter declaration. > Is it necessary to declare "alias_maps" in the main.cf or does it have a > default file path that it looks to or does it just not look at alias_maps if > not declared?
See http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#alias_maps alias_maps (default: see "postconf -d" output) [root@server ~]# postconf -d | grep alias_maps alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases, nis:mail.aliases On my server the default is /etc/aliases, even if not defined in main.cf. Best regards Gerald