NAME

sympa_newaliases, sympa_newaliases.pl - Alias database maintenance

SYNOPSIS

  sympa_newaliases.pl --domain=dom.ain

DESCRIPTION

sympa_newaliases.pl is a program to maintain alias database.

It is typically invoked from Sympa::Aliases::Template module via sympa_newaliases-wrapper, then updates alias database.

OPTIONS

sympa_newaliases.pl may run with following options.

"--domain="domain: Name of virtual robot on which aliases will be updated.
"-h", "--help": Print this help message.

CONFIGURATION PARAMETERS

Following site configuration parameters in /usr/local/etc/sympa/sympa.conf will be referred. They may be overridden by robot.conf of each virtual robot.

sendmail_aliases: Source text of alias database.
Default value is $SENDMAIL_ALIASES.
aliases_program: System command to update alias database. Possible values are:

"makemap": Sendmail makemap utility.
"newaliases": newaliases(1) or compatible utility.
"postalias": Postfix postalias(1) utility.
"postmap": Postfix postmap(1) utility.
Full path: Full path to executable file. File will be invoked with the value of "sendmail_aliases" as an argument.

Default value is "newaliases".

aliases_db_type

Type of alias database. This is meaningful when value of "aliases_program" parameter is "makemap", "postalias" or "postmap".

Possible values will be vary by system commands. For example, "postalias" and "postmap" can support any of "btree", "cdb", "dbm", "hash" and "sdbm".

Default value is "hash".

RETURN VALUE

Returns with exit code 0. If invoked system command failed, returns with its exit code. On other failures, returns with 1.

FILES

/usr/local/etc/sympa/sympa.conf: Sympa site configuration.
$LIBEXECDIR/sympa_newaliases-wrapper: Set UID wrapper for sympa_newaliases.pl.

HISTORY

sympa_newaliases.pl appeared on Sympa 6.1.18. It was initially written by IKEDA Soji <ikeda@conversion.co.jp>.