On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 07:28:11AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote:

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> 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?
>

Dear Haines,

as you know, /etc/aliases is normally used by MTAs. Now, there is no
"preferred" MTA in Devuan[*], so /etc/aliases is useful only if your
preferred MTA uses it/honour its content. The original sendmail did,
postfix does, and IIRC opensmtpd does as well. On the other hand,
qmail does not (it uses a series of separate files instead). In a
word, it's up to you to decide if you need an /etc/aliases, and up to
your preferred MTA to agree with you or not ;)

My2Cents

KatolaZ

[*] I know that for some arcane reason Debian seems to be recommending
exim4, but seriously, I think that exim4 is far larger and far more
complex to admin and maintain that postfix or qmail, for no apparent
gain.

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