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Date:      Tue, 6 Feb 2024 00:23:19 +0100
From:      Peter <list-freebsd-questions@jyborn.se>
To:        Gary Aitken <freebsd@dreamchaser.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: newaliases changed?
Message-ID:  <ZcFt5yshbZ%2B9Jr4v@pol-server.leissner.se>
In-Reply-To: <32601639-0a4e-4bb0-b87d-9bcbae1c7945@dreamchaser.org>

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Hello!

On Mon, Feb 05, 2024 at 04:15:02PM -0700, Gary Aitken wrote:
> Recently upgraded from 12.4 to 13.2
> When I run newaliases, I get a bunch of complaints for things that
> used to work fine:
> /etc/mail/aliases: line 88: goodfriends: ... missing value for alias
> /etc/mail/aliases: line 89: Non-continuation line starts with space
> 
> The entries in question look like this:
> 
> #friends: (bad addrs)
> #         foo@bentley.unco.edu, #      bentley.unco.edu: host not found
> #         baz@kcs.keene.k12.ny.us
> 
> goodfriends:
>           foo1@blackfoot.net, \
>           foo2@comcast.net, \
>           foo3@aol.com, \
>           foo4@fatquailfarm.com, \
>           foo5@sbcglobal.net, \
>           foo6@blackfoot.net, \
>           foo7@tnc.org, \
>           foo8@aol.com, \
>           foo9@hotmail.com, \
>           foo10@blackfoot.net
> 
> This is a cut and paste, obviously; the whitespace is all blanks.
> huh?
> Thanks for any tips.
> 
> Gary

I don't know the proper syntax, but based on the errors
I think that a " \" after "goodfriends:" could work.

Peter


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