Replacing Sendmail with Postfix in the base system

[joerg at britannica.bec.de]

On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 08:40:35PM +0200, talon at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> There are small irritating differences between the way sendmail and postfix
> treat the aliases. You cannot just rely on pure brute force conversion of 
> the setup between sendmail and postfix. The example i have in mind is a
> problem which is of some importance and burned me, the periodic mail
> sent each night to root by cron. Using sendmail aliasing root to myself did
> the job. Using postix this did not work, the mail was sent to the mail hub
> and went into our sysadm mail box. The solution is here in the postfix faq
> http://www.postfix.org/faq.html#some_local
> I am sure there are a number of similar small differences which preclude
> simply turning a knob in rc.conf.

I'm using a normal hash map on my system without problems. I'm 100% sure
that I get the daily mails :-)

Just keep in mind that the default location of the alias database for
postfix is /etc/aliases and *not* /etc/mail/aliases.

Joerg