Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 10:50:30 +0100 From: Spil Oss <spil.oss@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Problem with alias length in base Sendmail Message-ID: <5fbf03c21001240150r2064810n744694380ab8913a@mail.gmail.com>
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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
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