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kjell.glarum@medisin.ntnu.no (Kjell Rune Glærum) writes:

> On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 03:31:09PM -0600, RYAN vAN GINNEKEN wrote:
> > i keep geting this error in my postfix logs have tried newaliases 
> > command and it does not help also have tried to forward roots mail to a 
> > different accout and it does not seem to be working can someone help 
> > with this
> > 
> > postfix/local[617]: warning: database /etc/mail/aliases.db is older than 
> > source file /etc/mail/aliases
> 
> You need to update the /etc/mail/aliases.db file, run portmap /etc/mail/aliases

Ignore my previous post: fat fingers

postalias /etc/mail/aliases is what you need for an aliase file.
postmap is used for the other maps.

The only difference between the 2 I believe is the alias file format
is <key>: <value> rather than <key> <value> used by postmap.

Simon