G'day Tom,
Thanks for this great fix, I had posted in newbie on the same problem,
moving aliases.db to /etc/postfix did the trick thanks again.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Lockhart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Mandrake List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2000 07:31
Subject: [expert] Re: Trouble with receiving mail
>
> Ah! The problem seems to be due to postfix (or Mandrake) failing to find
> /etc/aliases.db.
>
> This seems to be a problem with Mandrake-7.0:
>
> 1) it stores the aliases source file in /etc/postfix/aliases
> 2) has a softlink from /etc/aliases to /etc/postfix/aliases
> 3) but newaliases writes the output .db file to /etc/aliases.db.
> 4) postfix is determined to read the aliases.db file from
> /etc/postfix/aliases.db
>
> --
> Thomas Lockhart
> Caltech/JPL
> Interferometry Systems and Technology
Michael Doyle
Adelaide, South Australia
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