From: Wietse Venema (wietseporcupine.org)
Date: Fri Jan 04 2008 - 09:28:11 CST

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Postfix Mail System:
>
> 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'

The "name: value" format is required by the aliases(5) file, which
is a sendmail-compatible feature of the Postfix local(8) delivery
agent.

> Up till now, I had entries in the aliases file in the form of:
>
> <alias> <recipients>

That is the format required by the VIRTUAL alias table.

> ...but gathered that it now wanted it in the form of:
>
> <alias>: <recipients>

That is the format required by the local aliases table.

> 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?

Let me guess. You did not keep a backup of the old setup so
you can't tell what was changed.

        Wietse

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