Mail Server Problems

G-Style · Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2004 5:29 pm Post subject: Mail Server Problems

I've been following the guide on build a mail server using postfix but when I get to the point that deals with aliases, it can't find the mail directory. Can someone tell me how i can actually get the mail dir in my /etc so I can continue with the installation?
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kashani · Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2004 6:14 pm Post subject:

I assume you're talking aobut /etc/mail/ not existing and therefore you can't find /etc/mail/aliases, yes? That's strange as I beleive it's part of mailbase which is a prereq for all the mail servers. On my Postfix sytem the only file in there is aliases and aliases.db which is created after running newaliases.

Got ahead and create /etc/mail/aliases using this source file /usr/share/doc/postfix-2.0.16-r1/defaults/aliases Then edit as appropiate.

Should be owned to root and have permissions of 644 on aliases.

kashani
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ltj · n00b Joined: 13 Feb 2004 Posts: 10 Location: Denmark

I find that setting alias_maps in main.cf to my liking, and then using the postalias <my_path_to_alias_file> command works fine.

Regards.

G-Style · Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2004 2:40 am Post subject:

kashani · Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2004 7:14 am Post subject:

If you're running syslog-ng your logs are most likely ending up in /var/log/messages There are a few forum posts and adding fitlering to the /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf file so that mail logs to mail.log and so forth.

Postfix has issues if you don't run newaliases first to create /etc/mail/aliases.db.

kashani
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cayenne · l33t Joined: 17 Oct 2002 Posts: 945 Location: New Orleans

I have the opposite problem...

I try newaliases, and I get the error:
postalias: fatal: open /etc/aliases: No such file or directory

it looks for /etc/aliases instead of /etc/mail/aliases

How do I change where newaliases looks ?

tia,

cayenne

EDIT: Ok, solved this one...had to edit in main.conf of postfix, to point the aliases_db parameter to the correct directory...worked after that!!

Now, on to bigger and better config problems!!

Thanx!!
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