Re: CVS commit: basesrc

[woods%weird.com@localhost (Greg A. Woods)]

[ On Wednesday, May 3, 2000 at 18:23:11 (+0200), Soren S. Jorvang wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: CVS commit: basesrc
>
> I think aliases(5) can be thought of as being somewhat MTA independent,
> so it might make sense to just leave it as /etc/aliases.

that's a dangerous thing to assume since if the "other" mailers use a
.db cache file it's not necessarily guaranteed to be compatible (I'm
pretty sure Postifix will be compatible with Sendmail on all NetBSD
platforms, and if not a fix would no doubt be accepted)

Even the basic file format may not be 100% compatible -- smail for
instance implements regular expression matching (the left hand side, if
enclosed in double quotes, is treated as a regular expression and is
matched against the mailbox being searched for -- and when that feature
is enabled the aliases file is always searched linearly until a match is
found, and no .db file is created).

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