[lug] aliases

David Trowbridge jupiter at flatirons.org
Wed Apr 25 09:08:21 MDT 2001


On my machine, it works only if the comma is directly before the name,
for
example:
root:  root ,rodgersj ,jupiter ,schlende ,ranna ,rodgersm

A little weird, but it works.
-David

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David Trowbridge
jupiter at flatirons.org
http://jupiter.babylonia.flatirons.org

"Base 8 is just like base 10 really...if you're missing two fingers"

On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Warren Sanders wrote:

> On Wed, 25 Apr 2001 charles at lunarmedia.net wrote:
>
> > Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 09:15:13 -0500 (CDT)
> > From: charles at lunarmedia.net
> > Reply-To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> > To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> > Subject: Re: [lug] aliases
> >
> > > Something you might try is munging the line for abuse so that sendmail will
> > > spit out an error so you can tell that it is processing the file.  Do
> > > something like remove the colon and then run newaliases and verify that it
> > > burps appropriately.  As a stopgap measure, you could try switching to the
> > > include style alias, i.e.
> > >
> > > abuse: :include: /etc/mail/lists/abuse
> > >
> >
> > 	at least i'm not crazy :)
> > 	we're on the same track. i tried switching to using an include
> > 	file and the same pattern occurs. the message is delivered to
> > 	the first person in the list, but not the second. its very odd.
> >
> > 	thanks for all your help. i'll keep exploring and see if i can
> > 	post back with the solution (if any!)
> >
> > 	thanks -charles
> >
>
> Try using the full email address maybe.  Should work both ways.  As I said
> before, I also have a line in my /etc/mail/virtusertable.
>
> --
> Warren Sanders
> http://MontanaLinux.Org
>
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