[Gllug] sendmail problems continue

Andrew Halliwell ah at gnd.com
Tue Mar 4 09:56:41 UTC 2003


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"?
Sendmail doesn't read aliases directly, it reads a database file built from
it.

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