From: Andrej Ricnik-Bay (andrej.groupsgmail.com)
Date: Thu May 04 2006 - 13:32:14 CDT

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On 5/5/06, Magnus Bäck <magnusdsek.lth.se> wrote:

> Change virtual_maps to virtual_alias_maps. As you say yourself, the
> former one is deprecated. virtual_maps still works because of the
> default value of virtual_alias_maps:
OK, thanks for the clarification

> > Now: the person who set this up has decided that aliases should
> > be part of virtual; it uses aliases (5) format, however. Is that a
> > problem?
> No, the format does not matter. However, even if the file follows the
> format of aliases(5), the lookup rules of virtual(5) will be applied.
And again - thank you very much; I hope that once I
fully understand how the internal workings of postfix
go about these things I'll be able to resolve my final
issue.

> If the file is in aliases(5) format, use postalias(1).
> If the file is in virtual(5) format, use postmap(1).
Ok.

Thanks Magnus, I really appreciate this.

Cheers,
Andrej

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