Hoary Array 6: possible postfix configuration error? - mail.log

[Rob Chanter]

On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 17:50 -0700, LaMont Jones wrote:

> > Wietse's /etc/postfix/post-install is intended to be used by packages as
> > well as the source installation procedure. It doesn't run newaliases but
> > will throw a message reminding you to do so.
> 
> The issue here was actually that debootstrap replaces sendmail with
> /bin/true until the end of the debootstrap run, and newaliases is a
> symlink to sendmail. :-(  The fix for hoary is to use postalias, instead
> of newaliases, in the postinst.  For breezy, postfix shouldn't be part
> of base, so it'll get a chance to really install without interference.

Aha, that all makes sense. Thanks

cheers
rob