[Mailman-Developers] Postfix instructions in 2.0.10's INSTALL

[Dan Mick]

> On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 03:52:37PM -0700, Dan Mick wrote:
> > What is this supposed to do?  "postalias <a private alias file>"
> > appears to simply create an alias.dir/alias.pag pair in that
> > same directory, but not affect the Postfix delivery at all.
> > Is this a Postfix version skew problem?  Is it expected
> > that postalias actually "installs" the aliases somehow?
> > It doesn't seem like that's the case.
> 
> You have to setup your /etc/postfix/main.cf like this:
> 
> alias_maps =    dbm:/etc/postfix/aliases,
>                 dbm:/usr/local/mailman/aliases.mailman
> 
> alias_database =        dbm:/etc/postfix/aliases,
>                         dbm:/usr/local/mailman/aliases.mailman
> 
> Then, I just do "postalias aliases.mailman" when I change 
> ~mailman/aliases.mailman

Well, that makes sense, but without that extra bit of "alias_maps"
configuration, the Problem/Solution as written doesn't make
much sense.

I'm sure it's fixed for 2.1 with the README.POSTFIX file, but 2.0.10
users are rightfully confused by that entry.

Also, INSTALL in 2.1 has that partially-useful Problem/Solution
entry; even though it has been updated to point to README.POSTFIX,
it probably shouldn't come off like it solves that problem.