From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 7 19:09:19 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D86816A40E for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2007 19:09:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougs@dawnsign.com) Received: from cetus.dawnsign.com (myrouter.dawnsign.com [216.70.250.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E675613C4A5 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2007 19:09:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougs@dawnsign.com) Received: by cetus.dawnsign.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2657.72) id <1PXZB760>; Wed, 7 Feb 2007 11:12:01 -0800 Message-ID: <9DE6EC5B5CF8C84281AE3D7454376A0D0138F5@cetus.dawnsign.com> From: Doug Sampson To: "'Peter A. Giessel'" Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 11:12:00 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2657.72) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: newaliases not working? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 19:09:19 -0000 > On 2007/02/07 9:33, Doug Sampson seems to have typed: > > Nice to know this. However, I still would like to fix the > issue with the > > /etc/aliases not being used to translate any mail sent to root to an > > alternate email address. If anyone knows a cure to this, > I'd be grateful. > > Thanks. > > I believe that sendmail wants /etc/mail/aliases.db not /etc/aliases. > You can remake your aliases.db by: > cd /etc/mail > make maps > Does not seem to do the trick. Feb 7 11:07:08 ftp sendmail[14035]: l17J780C014035: from=root, size=30, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200702071907.l17J780C014035@ftp.dawnsign.com>, relay=root@localhost Feb 7 11:07:08 ftp sm-mta[14036]: l17J78cU014036: from=, size=356, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200702071907.l17J780C014035@ftp.dawnsign.com>, proto=ESMTP, daemon=Daemon0, relay=localhost [127.0.0.1] Feb 7 11:07:08 ftp sendmail[14035]: l17J780C014035: to=root, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30030, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (l17J78cU014036 Message accepted for delivery) Feb 7 11:07:09 ftp sm-mta[14038]: l17J78cU014036: to=, delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=esmtp, pri=30356, relay=mercury.dawnsign.com. [192.168.1.4], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (OK) ~Doug