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Started by Philip Colmer
Wed, 22 Feb 1989 09:56
Included aliases in sendmail
Author: Philip Colmer
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1989 09:56
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1989 09:56
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I am running sendmail under BSD 4.3 and trying to use the "include" alias facility. In case this isn't clear, this is where you can have a file of mail names and the alias file contains a entry of the form: 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. Whenever I try this, however, the mail system complains that ":include:/usr/users/pcolmer/file" is not a known user. How can I get this very useful facility to work? Philip Colmer Acorn Computers Ltd (pcolmer@acorn.co.uk)
Re: Included aliases in sendmail
Author: Juergen Wagner
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1989 03:31
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1989 03:31
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In article <719@acorn.co.uk> pcolmer@acorn.co.uk (Philip Colmer) groovily writes: >... >filealias: ":include:/usr/users/pcolmer/file" >... >How can I get this very useful facility to work? Hmm... how about removing these double quotes around the :include: expression? -- Juergen Wagner gandalf@csli.stanford.edu wagner@arisia.xerox.com
Re: Included aliases in sendmail
Author: Jos Vos
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1989 07:37
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1989 07:37
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In article <719@acorn.co.uk> pcolmer@acorn.co.uk (Philip Colmer) writes: >filealias: ":include:/usr/users/pcolmer/file" >Whenever I try this, however, the mail system complains that >":include:/usr/users/pcolmer/file" is not a known user. Just remove the double quotes !! -- -- ###### Jos Vos ###### Internet jos@idca.tds.philips.nl ###### -- ###### ###### UUCP ...!mcvax!philapd!jos ######
Re: Included aliases in sendmail
Author: Steve DeJarnett
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1989 18:42
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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