How to add aliases?

[brahama]

Hi! checking out your module.

Does it support adding aliases directly from it? i mean like the campto module that you put in hiera the alias and it adds it automatically, with all the reload and newaliases run.

Cheers!

[bodgit]

I think the camptocamp module only handles running newaliases, it's using the standard mailalias Puppet resource type to manage the alias entries. Now, I think currently my module expects to manage the source file as a whole but I suppose it could be enhanced to allow something else to manage the source file and only trigger running newaliases or postmap /etc/aliases so it could be notified by mailalias or concat resource types.

[brahama]

Didn't check how camptocamp modules does it. Its handy cause as you mention, there is no need to manage the file separately in my profile for instance. and it takes care of notifying newaliases to update the db. Do you have any preference or planning for this?

Thanks and Cheers!

[bodgit]

FYI this has been finally implemented, you can do something like this:

include ::postfix

::postfix::lookup::database { '/etc/aliases':
  type => 'hash',
}

Mailalias <||> -> ::Postfix::Lookup::Database['/etc/aliases']

And then create any mailalias resources as usual and the map will be automatically compiled