[lug] aliases

[John Hernandez]

Charles, have you considered an upgrade to a more current sendmail release?

If that's not an option, have you entered sendmail verbose alias/include debug mode and tried to see how the alias gets expanded?

sendmail -d27.4 -v abuse at yourdomain.com

Or perhaps address test mode:

sendmail -bt

-John

David Trowbridge wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
> -------------------
> 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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