Re: use /etc/aliases or /etc/mail/aliases?

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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.)


Dmitry Butskoy
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