Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Wed, 11 Jun 2003 12:11:45 -0400
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kov=E1cs_P=E9ter?= <kovacspeter2@freemail.hu>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Aliases
Message-ID:  <3EE754C1.508@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <freemail.20030511180012.9907@fm8.freemail.hu>
References:  <freemail.20030511180012.9907@fm8.freemail.hu>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Kovács Péter wrote:
[ ... ]
> I am having some trouble with the postfix system.
> It says:
> postfix/smtpd[90539]: fatal: open database
>   /etc/mail/aliases.db: Inappropile type or format
> I tried to make aliases in the /etc/mail directory, but it
> failed.

Running "makemap" directly on the aliases file doesn't quite work (*); try using 
the "newaliases" command, or whatever the postfix equivalent is.

(*): The aliases map has a "@" key for historical reasons which is added by 
newaliases.

-- 
-Chuck




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?3EE754C1.508>