Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 11:27:36 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Toomas Aas <toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sendmail aliases mystery Message-ID: <20040419102736.GB52903@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20040419101840.GA52903@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <200404190715.i3J7FJTH007874@lv.raad.tartu.ee> <200404190945.i3J9jgiY025446@lv.raad.tartu.ee> <20040419101840.GA52903@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 11:18:40AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> To: Toomas Aas <toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee>, o=3Dtoomas.aas@raad.tartu.eet,
> ctladdr=3D <root@80-235-112-80-dsl.trt.estpak.ee>
> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>,
> Toomas Aas <toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee>, o=3Dtoomas.aas@raad.tartu.=
eet,
> ctladdr=3D <root@80-235-112-80-dsl.trt.estpak.ee>,
> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Ooops. Apologies all. Let this be a lesson: never sneeze when your
finger is on the 'paste' button. Please trim the nonsense out of any
replies.
> On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 12:45:14PM +0300, Toomas Aas wrote:
> > Hi!
> >=20
> > Date sent: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 09:57:15 +0100
> > From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
> >=20
> > > Most odd. Is there anything in the log files (/var/log/maillog) to
> > > indicate what the problem might be?
> >=20
> > Nothing that I can see. When Sendmail starts up, only the following is=
=20
> > logged:
> >=20
> > Apr 17 21:53:41 80-235-112-80-dsl sm-mta[95]: starting daemon (8.12.9p2=
): SMTP+queueing@00:30:00=20
> > Apr 17 21:53:41 80-235-112-80-dsl sm-msp-queue[98]: starting daemon (8.=
12.9p2): queueing@00:30:00
>=20
> [...]
>=20
> That log output appears to be entirely normal. In the case where the
> alias is not being applied, it's just as if there's no (or an empty)
> alias file there.
>=20
> You do seem to have a stray tab character in your aliases file --
> which results in the appearance of this:
>=20
> > to=3Dtoomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee\t,=20
> ^^
>=20
> But that shouldn't cause any of the effects you've been seeing.
>=20
> Have you customized the `hostname`.mc file at all? If you have, could
> you port it here?
Cheers,
Matthew
--=20
Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks
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