At 06:47 PM 11/21/2001 -0500, Bob Puff/NLE wrote:
Right, and this is still necessary. But the virtual maps are also equally as important, since the newbies are still gonna say "Why is mail to the list bouncing if it automagically creates everything?!".
You have to draw the line as to how far you're going to 'dummy proof' your software. Not everyone uses virtual maps in this manner. I don't.
Updating the /etc/postfix/virtual file takes the Postfix postmap command to generate its database file, which is a little different from the postalias program that you run/emulate now.
I won't let any automatic process touch my master virtual file. The current setup (as of 2.1a3) works just fine; it takes control of one specific file which I bless. I then make postfix include it in alias processing. It's simple and works. Move it to ./contrib if needed, but please don't toss it.
Bob
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