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Subject:    Confused about aliases in smtpd.conf and aliases file for smtpd
From:       Hrishikesh Murukkathampoondi <hrishim () gmail ! com>
Date:       2016-12-29 10:38:35
Message-ID: E267C035-0929-4B61-A310-C09242C4BA30 () gmail ! com
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The man page for smtpd.conf(5) says that a alias table can be used to look up \
alternate destinations for all addresses. It further refers to table(5) for the \
format of different tables that can be used. The man page for table(5), in the \
section titled "Aliasing tables", says the format of the file for aliasing tables \
should be

---
user1 otheruser
user2 otheryser1,otheruser2
user3 otheruser@example.com
---

Where the key is the first entry in each line and the value is from one of the \
recipients in aliases(5). 


The man page for aliases(5) describes the format of the aliases file, as used by \
smtpd. A file of the described format can be used to assign an arbitrary name to a \
email  or group of email addresses.


My question is - if aliases are specified in /etc/mail/aliases for smtpd what is the \
purpose of creating additional alias tables files for smtpd.conf ?

Thnaks
Hrishi

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