On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 11:21:07AM +0100, David Jardine wrote: > On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 08:30:12PM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > > When I moved to debian, my aliases are no longer working. For example, > > in /etc/aliases I have the following entry: > > > > debian: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > However, when I try to send a message to debian, it sends a > > message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], which is my FQDN attached > > to the alias name. That is, the alias db is not being used. I ran > > both # newaliases (which I did under RedHat/sendmal) and I ran # > > postfix /etc/aliases (I'm now using postfix under debian). > > > > I'm not sure, but is the first command associated only with sendmail, > > and I should now use the second only? In any case, the /etc/alias.db > > that builds is not being used when I send messages. > > I'm using mutt and have aliases in /etc/Muttrc, eg > > alias debian [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yeah, but that's a different thing. Mutt aliases apply only when you write mail with mutt but /etc/aliases apply to all mail transport on your system.
E. g. the line root: joachim says that all mail to root is sent to my normal account (mainly messages from daemons which obviously don't write their mails with mutt). BTW I use exim and exim.conf contains the following lines about aliases # This director handles aliasing using a traditional /etc/aliases file. # If any of your aliases expand to pipes or files, you will need to set # up a user and a group for these deliveries to run under. You can do # this by uncommenting the "user" option below (changing the user name # as appropriate) and adding a "group" option if necessary. system_aliases: driver = aliasfile file_transport = address_file pipe_transport = address_pipe file = /etc/aliases search_type = lsearch # user = list # Uncomment the above line if you are running smartlist Don't know if it's similar for sendmail or postfix. Regards -- Joachim Fahnenmüller # Hi! I'm a .signature virus. Copy me into # your ~/.signature to help me spread! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
