Re: Included aliases in sendmail

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From: Steve DeJarnett
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1989 18:42

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In article <719@acorn.co.uk> pcolmer@acorn.co.uk (Philip Colmer) writes:
>I am running sendmail under BSD 4.3 and trying to use the
>"include" alias facility.
>
>filealias: ":include:/usr/users/pcolmer/file"
>
>and sending mail to "filealias" should result in mail being
>sent to all the names in the specified file.

	In our alias file, we have lines of the following form:

filealias::include:/usr/local/lib/aliases/staff

	Try doing it without the quotes, and it should work (at least, that's
my guess as to the problem.

	Steve

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From: steve@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Steve DeJarnett)
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Subject: Re: Included aliases in sendmail
Keywords: sendmail, aliases
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Date: 23 Feb 89 18:42:14 GMT
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