Re: Qmail, smail and sendmail

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

Yves Arrouye writes ("Qmail, smail and sendmail"):
> I'd like to know if there's a qmail Debian package, and how aliases
> work in qmail: the Apache package used to add an alias to /etc/aliases
> and then run sendmail -bi (or newaliases).
> 
> Does qmail support /etc/aliases, have a newaliases command and support
> being called as sendmail with the -bi option?
> 
> The same questions may be asked for smail.
> 
> Is the answer is no, can you please email me some doc? And maybe we'll
> have to write an install-mail-alias command used by packages script, in
> this case.

Well, perhaps we should just say that you can edit /etc/aliases and
must run newaliases afterwards if it exists.

Ian.