Re: Qmail, smail and sendmail

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>]

Yves Arrouye writes ("Re: Qmail, smail and sendmail"):
...
> That's what I do. I even run sendmail -bi if newaliases is not found.
> But I wanted to be sure that all mail packages do provide the same
> user way of defining aliases, even if they manage them differently after
> that.

I'll specify in the mail processing section of the polcy manual:
 <tt>/etc/aliases</> is the source file for the system mail aliases
 (e.g.  postmaster, usenet, etc.) - it is the one which the sysadmin
 and postinst scripts may edit.  After <tt>/etc/aliases</> is edited
 the program or human editing it must call <prgn/newaliases/.  All MTA
 packages should come with a <prgn/newaliases/ program, even if it does
 nothing, but older MTA packages do not do this so programs should not
 fail if <prgn/newaliases/ cannot be found.
 <p>

Ian.