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2 total messages Started by Brian Policky Sun, 09 Aug 1992 21:57

#832

Author: Brian Policky
Date: Sun, 09 Aug 1992 21:57

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I am having some old aliases showing up. I looked in the net info and in  
the /LocalLibrary/Images/People/aliases and have not found it. I have also  
looked at the users .mailalias file. The alias that shows up isn't in any  
of those places, and when I put a different alias for the same word in the  
/LocalLibrary/Images/People/aliases file, it is still overridden with this  
phantom alias. I need to know of all of the places where sendmail (or  
whatever) looks for aliases. I am running a lone NeXTcube with 2.1 OS.

Thanks

coke
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coke%net23@spectrx.saigon.com  |  Life without
..szebra!spectrx!net23!coke    |  Coca-Cola
                               |  wouldn't be

Re: aliases

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Author: Christian Kurrer
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 21:06

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In article <1992Aug9.215721.872@net23.uucp> coke%net23@spectrx.saigon.com  
(Brian Policky) writes:
> I am having some old aliases showing up. I looked in the net info and in  
> the /LocalLibrary/Images/People/aliases and have not found it. I have  
also  
> looked at the users .mailalias file. The alias that shows up isn't in  
any  
> of those places, and when I put a different alias for the same word in  
the  
> /LocalLibrary/Images/People/aliases file, it is still overridden with  
this  
> phantom alias. I need to know of all of the places where sendmail (or  
> whatever) looks for aliases. I am running a lone NeXTcube with 2.1 OS.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> coke%net23@spectrx.saigon.com  

I have fought a long war on aliases, but I seem to be on the winning side.  
Here is my recipe that I use (as root) to update the aliases:

mailserver# Edit /etc/sendmail/aliases
mailserver# newaliases
mailserver# cp /etc/sendmail/aliases /LocalLibrary/Images/People/aliases
mailserver# niload -v -d aliases / < /etc/sendmail/aliases

I think that the mail system is pretty messy and certainly could need some  
streamlining (system 3.0, where are you?). A lot of confusion arises from  
the fact that three different needs have to be considered:
-Unix, which requires you to run newaliases so that they are recognized by  
sendmail
-Netinfo, which want you to put all the Unix info in the NI database
-and Mail, which seems to be too lazy to look for aliases anywhere else  
than in /LocalLibrary/Images/People.

Two comments: 1. The recipe works, which is more than I usually expect.
2. There might be some overkill involved; any comments on this are  
welcome, but nevertheless consider point 1.

Christian Kurrer
kurrer@lisboa.ks.uiuc.edu
NeXTMail discouraged. Flames, too.

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