From: Victor Duchovni (Victor.DuchovniMorganStanley.com)
Date: Fri Jan 04 2008 - 09:19:25 CST

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On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 10:16:32AM -0500, Postfix Mail System wrote:

>
> Strangely it seems, some time ago, my /etc/aliases file (which
> /usr/local/etc/postfix/aliases symbolically links to) stopped working.
>
> Once I discovered this, and tried running newaliases, and got a bunch of
> these errors:
>
> 'warning: /etc/aliases, line 18: need name:value pair'
>
>
> Up till now, I had entries in the aliases file in the form of:
>
> <alias> <recipients>
>
> ...but gathered that it now wanted it in the form of:
>
> <alias>: <recipients>
>
>
> I gather that everything stopped working around August sometime. I added
> colons to the lines and its all happy now. But any idea why it would have
> worked before and then suddenly not?

Aliases have always required a ":" after the alias name.

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        Viktor.

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