[Gllug] sendmail problems continue

Adrian McMenamin Adrian at mcmen.demon.co.uk
Wed Mar 5 23:15:12 UTC 2003


On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 09:56, Andrew Halliwell wrote:
> And verily, didst Adrian McMenamin announce to the hordes:
> > I altered the alias file and the mail didn't bounce, but it didn't get
> > delivered either - it just disappeared (to where I haven't the
> > foggiest).
> > 
> > Is there any format I should use when updating the alias file?
> 
> The format's simply
> mailer-daemon:	postmaster
>               ^tab (don't know if any whitespace'll do)
> 
> Did you run "newalias"?

Yes :-<
> Sendmail doesn't read aliases directly, it reads a database file built from
> it.
> 
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