[lug] aliases

Hugh Brown hugh at vecna.com
Wed Apr 25 09:34:57 MDT 2001


sounds like your install of sendmail has gone south for the winter.

does 'rpm -V sendmail' report anything weird

what happens if you try and break the aliases file and then run newaliases
against it?

Also what's in your sendmail.mc file?


"charles at lunarmedia.net"
> 
> > 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
> 
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