[lug] aliases

[George Sexton]

My guess is that the ^I is a tab. Try putting in a space.

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us [mailto:lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us]On
Behalf Of charles at lunarmedia.net
Sent: 25 April, 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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