[lug] aliases

[charles at lunarmedia.net]

well, i am back to scratching my head.


abuse:	charles, craig

works, but only for the craig account

abuse: 	craig, charles

works, but only for the craig account

abuse:	charles at some.other.host, craig

both work.

abuse: 	charles

works! which really throws me into a headspin.

so, i am pretty confused here :)
it really looks as though the problem involves just my account, but the
fact that when an alias refers to only my account, it works, throws me
completely off.

i havent updated sendmail yet, but i think that may be my next step. the
box is a redhat 6.2 with all of redhat's updated rpms applied.

someone please tell me this one merits a good scratching of heads.

thanks -charles


On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Atkinson, Chip wrote:

> 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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