[wellylug] Default email account for Ubuntu servers

[Daniel Pittman]

Cliff Pratt <enkidu at cliffp.com> writes:
> Xav Paice wrote:
>>> Ubuntu seems to use Dovecot? newaliases is a sendmail thing isn't
>>> it, or does Dovecot or whatever Ubuntu Server supplies need that?
>>> Exim doesn't.
>>
>> Dovecot is an IMAP/POP3 server rather than MTA - my Ubuntu is Postfix
>> but that's because I installed it :)
>
> Ah OK. I've used neither.
>
>> newaliases is pretty generic afaik.
>
> Well, you can run newaliases on Exim, but it doesn't do anything. I
> was wondering about other MTAs - whether they really need or just
> provide NOP newaliases command.

Postfix uses it for the default format of alias files, which it turns
into a compiled database for fast searching.  It does nothing if the
aliases file is configured with sources that don't require that
compilation process.

Regards,
        Daniel