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Date:      Wed, 07 Sep 2005 07:50:35 -0600
From:      Steve Suhre <tech@nano.net>
To:        Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Sendmail not using aliases
Message-ID:  <431EF02B.1050902@nano.net>
In-Reply-To: <20050907131911.GA8363@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv>
References:  <431EDEAF.1010102@nano.net> <20050907131911.GA8363@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv>

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No, just a generic "DSN: Data format error". The bounced message just 
says user unknown. If I rebuild the aliases and virtusertable db's I get 
nothing but new db files, no errors. No errors of any kind in the log 
files when sendmail starts during boot.



Giorgos Keramidas wrote:

>## Redirected to freebsd-questions from freebsd-hackers.
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>On 2005-09-07 06:35, Steve Suhre <tech@nano.net> wrote:
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>>I'm upgrading a server and have sendmail 8.13.1 installed. I've moved
>>the aliases and virtusertable files over and have run makemap and
>>newaliases. Sendmail has been complaining that it can't find aliased
>>users like postmaster and www. I doublechecked the aliases file and they
>>are there. If I add them to the virtusertable file, which I'd rather not
>>do, then sendmail stops complaining and delivers the mail. I checked for
>>the "-n" flag and it's not set when runnung sendmail at startup. I also
>>checked to see that the aliases file was in the correct place as
>>indicated in sendmail.cf.
>>    
>>
>
>That's funny.  Any hints in the log files?
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>
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