From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 Description of problem: redhat-switchmail should link /etc/aliases to /etc/postfix/aliases when selecting Postfix as your MTA, or mv /etc/aliases /etc/aliases.old; echo "# Use /etc/postfix/aliases for the Postfix MTA" >/etc/aliases It sure would elminate alot of confusion when moving from Sendmail to Postfix. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run redhat-switchmail 2. Select postfix 3. vi /etc/aliases;newaliases Actual Results: /etc/aliases aliases are not in /etc/postfix/aliases.db Expected Results: Editing the /etc/aliases file should actually edit /etc/postfix/aliases Additional info:
it's renamed in RHL 9. the correct name is redhat-switch-mail
I'm switching this to Fedora since its an enhancment and not a bug.
Just a side note: the mv/ln -s/etc from /etc/aliases to /etc/whatever/aliases should be based on a "grep aliases /etc/postfix/main.cf", or better yet on " postconf |grep alias_database". Reason: not everyone keeps the aliases files in /etc/postfix. I am using postfix for almost 2 years and my aliases files are NOT stored in /etc/postfix but in a separate directory with different files (local users, aliases needed by the mail lists, and so on). Not to mention the case(s) when addresses are stored in a database :)
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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 117661 ***