From: Robert Kofoed (rmkvelankani.com)
Date: Wed Mar 02 2005 - 09:54:30 CST

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Excuse me if this is multiply posted, had some problems.

I'm using postfix-2.1.5-2.4.FC3 on Fedora Core 3 as an incoming gateway to
my mail servers. I'd like to block invalid recipients with several alias lists. I set
alias_maps = hash:file1, hash:file2. However, when I try to change
alias_database = $alias_maps, postfix fails to start with the following log message:

Mar 2 08:12:07 mailgate postfix/postalias[5815]: fatal: open $alias_maps: No such file or directory
Mar 2 08:12:15 mailgate postfix/postfix-script: fatal: the Postfix mail system is not running

The original setting is alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases, which works fine. I also
set alias_database = hash:file1, hash:file2, ..., which results in the message:

Mar 1 08:15:03 mailgate postfix/postalias[23387]: fatal: open file1,?hash:file2: No such file or directory

It looks to me like the alias_database parameter is not being parsed correctly.
Have I missed something in the docs? This setting works fine in my postfix 2.0.16 configuration.

Thanks for any help.

Bob Kofoed

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