Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 19:10:13 +0100 From: Spil Oss <spil.oss@googlemail.com> To: jhell <jhell@dataix.net>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with alias length in base Sendmail Message-ID: <5fbf03c21001241010j390d69f4j7c3a6ddb0424aaf8@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1001241258430.40512@pragry.qngnvk.ybpny> References: <5fbf03c21001240150r2064810n744694380ab8913a@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1001241258430.40512@pragry.qngnvk.ybpny>
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Hi jhell, aliases can be used as mailing-lists........ (remember to also have a <listname>-owner alias if you wish to use it that way) And there is a work-around, also documented in the aliases man-page. split it up in multiple parts that are lists again mailinglist: mailinglist-part1, mailinglist-part2, mailinglist-part3 mailinglist-part1: recipient1@example.org, recipient2@example.net mailinglist-part2: recepient3@example.net, recipient4@example.org Still curious as to why the NEWDB in FreeBSD does not support more than ca. 1000-bytes in an alias. Kind regards, Spil. On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 7:03 PM, jhell <jhell@dataix.net> wrote: > > On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 04:50, spil.oss@ wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> >> Today I ran into the BUG documented in the aliases man-page. >> >> If you have compiled sendmail with DBM support instead of NEWDB, >> you >> may have encountered problems in dbm(3) restricting a single alias >> to >> about 1000 bytes of information. <snip> >> >> Looking at Sendmail, it is compiled with NEWDB so the restriction >> would not apply. >> >> # sendmail -d0.1 -bv root >> Version 8.14.3 >> Compiled with: DNSMAP LOG MAP_REGEX MATCHGECOS MILTER MIME7TO8 MIME8TO7 >> NAMED_BIND NETINET NETINET6 NETUNIX NEWDB NIS PIPELINING >> SCANF >> STARTTLS TCPWRAPPERS USERDB XDEBUG >> >> If my alias (including whitespace) exceeds ca. 1000 characters, >> running `make aliases` will report an error. >> /etc/mail/aliases: line 320: alias too long >> Resulting in an aliases.db file without the too long alias >> 550 5.1.1 <alias1@example.org>... User unknown >> Which means to me that the alias is simply skipped and the rest of the >> aliases database is installed. >> >> There is a workaround documented with the bug in the man-page, but I'd >> very much like to understand why this is failing. >> >> FreeBSD gw.example.org 7.2-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p1 #2: Thu >> Jun 11 12:58:02 CEST 2009 >> root@gw.example.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MYKERNEL i386 >> >> Kind regards, >> >> Spil >> > > That's either one hell of a pipe or the owner of that email address can be > proud that no-one will ever email him/her ;) > > Can you post the alias in question ? Maybe there is another way that you > could go about doing this if it is not just a test case trying to flaunt the > adequate limits of sendmail. > > -- > > jhell > >
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