Bug 20800

Summary:	postalias must be added to desktop guide
Product:	[OLD] Docs-user	Reporter:	Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) <swift>
Component:	Desktop Configuration Guide	Assignee:	Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) <swift>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-05-11 12:41:44 UTC

(mail on gentoo-docs-review)

I have a small addition to the Desktop Configuration Guide, to be
precise the mail part of this guide.

Yesterday I spent most of my time writing documents about postfix, since
my sqllog was growing with enormous speed. All log entries were about
mail to root that could not be delivered. It turned out that postfix was
looking voor mailaliasses in /etc/mail/aliasses.db, but it seemed that
the newaliasses script only gave me a /etc/mail/aliasses file.

I fixed this by running
/usr/sbin/postalias /etc/mail/aliasses

This solved the problem for me. (after clearing the queue ofcourse).

Hope this helps,


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-05-13 11:14:57 UTC

postalias is when the aliasfile-location is changed. Default however /etc/aliases is used. Never in desktop.xml is the $alias_maps set to another value. Also, newaliases creates $alias_database which is default /etc/aliases. 

So this problem can only have occured when you deliberately changed the "alias_maps" or "alias_database" variables in main.cf