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- From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
- Subject: Re: mail problems - /etc/aliases
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.054008.11027@mp.cs.niu.edu>
- Organization: Northern Illinois University
- References: <1992Nov20.174418.15529@tamsun.tamu.edu>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 05:40:08 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov20.174418.15529@tamsun.tamu.edu> peram@cs.tamu.edu (Suresh B Peram) writes:
- >
- >We have many large aliases in /etc/aliases, which are
- >defined using :include:file notation.
- >
- >The problem that we find is that some of the users in the
- >"file" do not receive mail sent to the "alias-name". Is
- >there a problem if the number of users in the "file"
- >exceeds a certain number ? Surprisingly, the users who
- >do not receive these mails are almost the same each time,
- >though we are not very sure about this.
-
- Chances are you have a local user in :include: file with 'f' as the
- second letter in the login name. If so, you probably have a broken
- version of /bin/mail, and you need to install SunOS patch 100224.
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