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1 total messages Started by Hokey Tue, 26 Jul 1988 20:26
sendmail and user alias files
#2743
Author: Hokey
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 1988 20:26
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Whenever I try to send a message which expands (in /usr/lib/aliases) to another
alias file, I always get a failure message for the first entry of the file.

Anybody know what's wrong?

Here is a concrete example:

	/usr/lib/aliases contains a line of the form:

		std-mumps-People: :include:/usr/usr/hokey/Mod/aliases

	/usr/usr/hokey/Mod/aliases contains four entries:

		mumps@clover.ucdavis.edu
		dsm.dec.com!herring
		dsm.dec.com!berryman
		dsm.dec.com!white

The message is sent with the following recipients:

	To: std-mumps
	Bcc: std-mumps-People

As moderator, I ignore the message I send to std-mumps, but this enables
recipients to do a simple "reply", and their message is sent to me instead
of those on the list (I have to gateway messages into comp.std.mumps).
(My mailer is smart about ! and @ mail.)

Regardless of the order of the 4 mail alias recipients, the first one fails
to be delivered, and I get the message:

	Received: by plus5.com (UIUC-5.31/24Nov86-03:13:38)
		id AA27548; Tue, 26 Jul 88 15:07:23 CDT
	Date: Tue, 26 Jul 88 15:07:23 CDT
	From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON>
	Subject: Returned mail: Unable to deliver mail
	Message-Id: <8807262007.AA27548@plus5.com>
	To: hokey
	
	   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
	554 /usr/usr/hokey/Mod/aliases: line 0: mumps@clover.ucdavis.edu... Unknown domain edu: Not a typewriter
	
	   ----- Unsent message follows -----
	Received: by plus5.com (UIUC-5.31/24Nov86-03:13:38)
		id AA27543; Tue, 26 Jul 88 15:07:23 CDT
	Message-Id: <8807262007.AA27543@plus5.com>
	To: plus5.com!std-mumps
	Volume-Issue: X11/1988.11/comp.std.mumps/2
	From: tcgould.tn.cornell.edu!godfrey
	Subject: X11 Proposal Rules
	Date: 25 Jul 88 19:48:14 GMT
	Reply-To: tcgould.tn.cornell.edu!godfrey (John Godfrey)
	Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
	
	<body deleted for news posting>
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Hokey
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