Re: /etc/aliases

["Perry E. Metzger" <perry%piermont.com@localhost>]

itojun%iijlab.net@localhost writes:
>       for sendmail, this is just matter of how we write /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
>       so it should be okay.  there can be some other binaries that can
>       break (hardcode /etc/mail/aliases), however.
> 
>       how does postfix handle/create /etc/aliases.db?  is postfix compatible
>       with sendmail?

Postfix is highly sendmail compatible. It uses the same aliases file
format.

I suggest we tweak the netbsd os specific m4 file to say /etc/aliases.

(It could even be argued, btw., that it should be /etc/sendmail, not
/etc/mail, since virtually everything it contains is sendmail specific.)

Perry