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Postfix and Aliases

Posted on: Feb 3, 2009. By: In: Linux With: No comments

Just a quick post on a simple Postfix installation and some steps that tripped me up a little recently.

I installed a basic version of Postfix on Debian and didn’t want to go through the hassles of configuring a MySQL database for managing users etc… I decided to just use the simple aliases file to manage users. To do this I needed to specify the following in my main.cf file:

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myhostname = example.co.uk
mydomain = example.co.uk
myorigin = example.co.uk
alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases
alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases
mydestination = $myhostname, $mydomain, localhost.$mydomain, mail.example.co.uk


and this in my /etc/aliases file:


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postmaster: root
root: example@gmail.com
example: example@gmail.com


I also ran into two more issues with the aliases file:


1. Dictionary issue with /etc/aliases


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postfix/smtpd[19065]: fatal: open dictionary: expecting "type:name" form instead of...


The issue here was that Postfix couldn’t read the aliases file.  It just needed to convert the /etc/aliases file into the /etc/aliases.db file.  The question was how, the answer, like this:


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sudo newaliases; sudo postfix reload 




2. Aliases database out of sync


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database /etc/aliases.db is older than source file /etc/aliases


The aliases database was not up to date with the aliases file.  To fix this I ran the commands above.

				
			
 
			
			

		
				
			
	
			

			
				
				
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