[lug] aliases

Warren Sanders sanders at MontanaLinux.Org
Wed Apr 25 08:56:22 MDT 2001


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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