postfix aliases file (in light of setup, sendmail, and exim)

Chris Ricker kaboom at gatech.edu
Fri Apr 23 05:35:51 UTC 2004


On Thu, 22 Apr 2004, Matthew Miller wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 08:16:47AM -0400, Chris Ricker wrote:
> > > mail to root directly, for security). But the postfix file also seems to be
> > > missing a whole host of "standard" aliases that are defined in the
> > > /etc/aliases version.
> > And vice-versa. Bugzilla has the diffs ready for your perusal....
> 
> Ahh, yep, found it. (bug# 117661).
> 
> Is there a RFE bug for the suggestion of managing the root alias via
> firstboot? And, is there one for changing the postfix package to use
> /etc/aliases? I couldn't find either. Thanks!

That bug is it. It's bouncing back and forth between being against setup and 
postfix, and has currently stopped on setup, but at one point it was an RFE 
for postfix to use /etc/aliases....

I don't think there's one specificially for adding root aliasing to 
firstboot though.

later,
chris





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