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Date:      Sun, 12 May 1996 12:19:02 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Cc:        jesus@abaforum.es (Jesus Rodriguez)
Subject:   Re: aliasing problem, help!!
Message-ID:  <199605121019.MAA06749@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199605112328.BAA18167@scugat1.abaforum.es> from Jesus Rodriguez at "May 12, 96 01:28:36 am"

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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
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