For faster access, I assume it is better to use
table aliases db:/etc/mail/aliases.db
instead of
table aliases file:/etc/mail/aliases
It would appear that if you use the latter syntax, OpenSMPTD does not even
use the '.db' file, i.e. aliases.db. Am I correct? Sorry, I went through
the source but I found it tough going.
Is ony of the other better form for smallish systems, i.e. under 100
users, under 100 aliases?
I ask this because sending emails to an alias worked for me without an
'aliases.db'. I note that some older OpenSMTPD discussions out on the
internet gives the impression that 'aliases.db' is needed even it the
latter form of the table definition is used. I think that those authors
must have been confused with ugly old 'sendmail' which complains if the
file 'aliases.db' is out of date relative to 'aliases'.
Note that with OpenSMTPD, if the first form appears in 'smtpd.conf', and
the file 'aliases.db' does not exist, then calling 'newaliases' results in
a message
/etc/mail/smtpd.conf:6: invalid configuration file /etc/mail/aliases.db for
table aliases
This is a bit cryptic as the file is not invalid, just missing.
The quick fix is to
cd /etc/mail
and then either
makemap aliases
or
makemap -d hash -o aliases.db aliases
After that, 'newaliases' works nicely. I would have thought that one of
the first things OpenSMTPD's version of 'newaliases' did was a 'makemap'.
Regards - Damian
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