From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 30 10:16:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ipsnetwork.net (mail.ipsnetwork.net [209.202.83.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15A6937B409 for ; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 10:16:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nvidican@ipsnetwork.net) Received: (from apache@localhost) by mail.ipsnetwork.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f6UHPGa06652; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 13:25:16 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from nvidican@ipsnetwork.net) Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 13:25:16 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200107301725.f6UHPGa06652@mail.ipsnetwork.net> From: "Nathan Vidican" To: Gavin Atkinson Cc: questions@freebsd.org Reply-To: nathan@vidican.com Subject: Re: sendmail and ::include:/some/file (solved) X-Mailer: NeoMail 1.24 X-IPAddress: 216.94.6.27 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG After some careful tacking, it turned out to be just a simple permissions problem. The errors reported back to the mail client made little sense, and were confusing to say the least; but when I tried to send mail locally it reported better errors, and I was able to fix it. > On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Nathan Vidican wrote: > > The aliases I'm using for majordomo seem to be having problems; I get > > an error bounced back to postmaster, saying that: > > X-Actual-Recipient: > > rfc822; /usr/home/major/bin/lists/test@mail.ipsnetwork.net > > > > It keeps concatenating the hostname 'mail.ipsnetwork.net' to what it > > should be expanding as a mail list. I cannot seem to figure out why. > > Using Sendmail 8.11.1 here, if upgrading to 8.11.4 doesn't fix it... > > then I'm not sure what to do. Any ideas/suggestions/sharing of similar > > problems would be greatly appreciated. > > It's difficult to say for certain without seing your aliases file, but > i'll guess you are missing the ':include:' from your aliases. > They should read something like: > > foo-outgoing ":include:/usr/local/majordomo/lists/foo" > > Hope that helps, > > gavin > > > -- Nathan Vidican Nathan@Vidican.com http://Nathan.Vidican.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message