[lug] aliases

[Atkinson, Chip]

For vi -- 
:set list
shows tabs (^I) and eol ($).  od -xc will help you see other stuff.

Chip

> -----Original Message-----
> From: charles at lunarmedia.net [mailto:charles at lunarmedia.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 10:48 AM
> To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> Subject: Re: [lug] aliases
> 
> 
> 
> turns out, its just *my* account that is the problem :)
> 
> in /etc/aliases, the destination accounts are all reached, 
> *except* for
> mine :)
> 
> i see this in /var/log/maillog that eluded me before:
> 
> Apr 25 11:45:27 ns1 sendmail[12118]: LAA12117: to=charles^I,
> ctladdr=<charles at lunarmedia.net> (500/500), delay=00:00:00,
> xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, stat=Sen
> 
> i am not certain what that ^I is, but i would imagine that that is a
> problem :)
> i don't see any characters in /etc/aliases and i am not using 
> a .forward
> file.
> 
> is there some flag i can set in vi to all characters 
> including carriage
> returns and other non-visibles?
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, John Hernandez wrote:
> 
> > 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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