On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 01:45:36AM -0400, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:

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For Exim, I predict "MTA = None" in mm_cfg.py will Do The Right Thing, since nothing special has to be done. I've no idea at this time what Sendmail, Qmail, or any other MTA will require, and I'm hoping those of you who use those mailers will be able to donate a module.

Sendmail can work in the same way as Postfix, I believe. I'm not sure if you can tell it to use more than one aliases.db file, but if it can, the only difference is the permissions with which the commands are executed. As far as I know, Sendmail also uses dbhash (hash or btree, depending on how you make them) so no problem there.

Yes sendmail can have multiple aliases files, just comma seperate them in the sendmail.cf file. This is for 8.11.1 which I am running - do not know for older versions. The only problem is that newaliases needs to be run as root, or else modify the sendmail.cf file to automagically rebuild the aliases files from time to time (you can specify the time out). I don't know what happens though when broken alias files are fed in though - does it just ignore the new file?

-- Richard Ellerbrock richarde@eskom.co.za