:: Re: [DNG] /etc/aliases
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Szerző: Haines Brown
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Címzett: dng
Tárgy: Re: [DNG] /etc/aliases
On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 01:21:46PM +0100, Antony Stone wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 December 2018 at 13:18:35, Haines Brown wrote:
>
> > In debian I had the file /etc/aliases with more or less standard
> > entries, but don't know how it got there (I didn't run sendmail or
> > procmail, but did run exim4). I now see that the file is missing in
> > devuan ASCII (where I also run exim4).
>
> I'm running Ascii with sendmail, and /etc/aliases does exist.
>
> > Is this file a good thing to have or does devuan provide its
> > functionality elsewhere?
>
> Have you checked to see whether it's under /etc/mail/aliases instead?



Antony, its not in my /etc/mail/aliases. In your case, your sendmail
probably created it. But for those not using sendmail, is
the /etc/aliases file no longer userful or needed?

Haines