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

Sam Varshavchik mrsam at courier-mta.com
Wed May 4 18:31:26 UTC 2011


Dmitry Butskoy writes:

> Genes MailLists wrote:
> > On 05/04/2011 11:43 AM, Honza Horak wrote:
> >
> >    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.
> >
> >    Perhaps its a desire to be backward compatible with the 1980's ... :-)
> >
> >    /etc/aliases should probably be linked to /etc/mail/aliases if its
> > still needed.
> >
>
> Postfix (as well as other MTA) uses /etc/aliases (and used
> /etc/postfix/aliases in the past).
> Perhaps it is some generic place for this file for different MTAs (when
> use alternatives etc.)

And then there are MTAs that do not have anything like sendmail's aliases  
file.


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