use /etc/aliases or /etc/mail/aliases?

Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Wed May 4 17:55:12 UTC 2011


Once upon a time, Genes MailLists <lists at sapience.com> said:
>   If I recall correctly - the old sendmail way was /etc/aliases - the
> new sendmail way is /etc/mail/aliases .. as far as I know that has the
> default for sendmail for some years.

Yes, but Red Hat's default sendmail config overrides that to continue to
use /etc/aliases.  I believe postfix also uses /etc/aliases (don't know
if that is also a RHEL/Fedora change from upstream default); I don't
know about other MTAs.

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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
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