From: Magnus Bäck (no email)
Date: Mon Aug 01 2005 - 11:53:18 EDT
On Monday, August 01, 2005 at 11:50 CEST,
Tony Earnshaw <> wrote:
> Having looked at the newaliases-style alias map, I understand that
> it's differently formatted from other maps.
Yes, local alias files in Postfix have this particular format, as
documented in aliases(5). There is no reason to refer to this format as
"newaliases-style". It simply is the official local alias file format
for indexed maps. The fact that a database built with postmap(1) works
is probably more of an implementation sideeffect rather than a behaviour
that can be relied on.
> I've never used such a formatted map for aliases; apart from a brief
> excursion into a mailman alias saga, which I left for Dax Kelson's
> postfix-to-mailman.py, I've never used /etc/aliases.
That certainly explains your confusion.
> All my alias maps and virtual alias maps are in LDAP, which uses
> standard table lookups and "just works". If I do use an ordinarily
> formatted hash map for /etc/aliases, that works too. In fact, I can
> do more with such a map than with a newaliases-formatted map.
How so?
> Neither are virtual alias maps, as detailed in VIRTUAL_README,
> formatted in the newaliases (or as you put it "old unix style
> aliases files) style.
No, of course they're not. The format of virtual alias files is
documented in virtual(5).
-- Magnus Bäck
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