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From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
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Kovács Péter wrote:
[ ... ]
> I am having some trouble with the postfix system.
> It says:
> postfix/smtpd[90539]: fatal: open database
>   /etc/mail/aliases.db: Inappropile type or format
> I tried to make aliases in the /etc/mail directory, but it
> failed.

Running "makemap" directly on the aliases file doesn't quite work (*); try using 
the "newaliases" command, or whatever the postfix equivalent is.

(*): The aliases map has a "@" key for historical reasons which is added by 
newaliases.

-- 
-Chuck