From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun May 12 03:21:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id DAA12592 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 12 May 1996 03:21:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA12579 for ; Sun, 12 May 1996 03:21:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id MAA29366; Sun, 12 May 1996 12:20:43 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id MAA22404; Sun, 12 May 1996 12:20:43 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id MAA06749; Sun, 12 May 1996 12:19:03 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199605121019.MAA06749@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: aliasing problem, help!! To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sun, 12 May 1996 12:19:02 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: jesus@abaforum.es (Jesus Rodriguez) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199605112328.BAA18167@scugat1.abaforum.es> from Jesus Rodriguez at "May 12, 96 01:28:36 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL15 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Jesus Rodriguez wrote: > Hi every body. I'm trying to use aliases file for a internal mailing list. i > have an entry like this in my aliases file: > mailing.list: :include:/path/to/file > i execute newaliases but it doesn't work. Sendmail tries to send mail to the > user > :include:/path/to/file@my.domain > > Seems that sendmail can't read the external aliases file. Hmm, it seems to work for me: ... foo: :include:/tmp/foolist uriah # echo bar > /tmp/foolist uriah # newaliases /etc/aliases: 35 aliases, longest 36 bytes, 942 bytes total uriah # telnet 0 smtp Trying 0.0.0.0... Connected to 0. Escape character is '^]'. 220 uriah.heep.sax.de ESMTP Sendmail 8.7.5/8.6.9 ready at Sun, 12 May 1996 12:17:51 +0200 (MET DST) expn foo 550 /tmp/foolist: line 1: bar... User unknown quit 221 uriah.heep.sax.de closing connection Connection closed by foreign host. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)