Re: Replacing Sendmail with Postfix in the base system

[joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 11:30:07PM +0200, talon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I'm using a normal hash map on my system without problems. I'm 100% sure
> > that I get the daily mails :-)
> > 
> 
> Yes, but perhaps you don't have the same configuration i have. All the mail
> must be routed to the mailhub, the machine name has to be stripped, and
> root has to be changed to my name. This works OK with sendmail as i said,
> not with postfix. The people who have written the postfix FAQ are not idiots 
> and there is a reason why they recommend this procedure - which indeed
> works.
> And, yes, i am old enough to take care where is my aliases file :-)

AH! You are using the alias table on the mailhub, not on the end
machine? Yes, that is handled slightly different by postfix and
sendmail.

Joerg