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- Subject: Re: Big Mailing lists
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.130721.6930@urz.unibas.ch>
- From: frank@ifi.unibas.ch (Robert Frank)
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 13:07:21 GMT
- Reply-To: frank@ifi.unibas.ch
- Sender: news@urz.unibas.ch (USENET News System)
- References: <1993Jan11.190140.14889@cubetech.com>
- Organization: Institut fuer Informatik
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- In article <1993Jan11.190140.14889@cubetech.com> writes:
- >
- > I have a big problem... the IXKit mailing list I maintain has gotten
- > too large for sendmail to handle. I have tried "daisy-chaining"
- > aliases using both NetInfo aliases and sendmail aliases, and both
- > produce the same results.
- >
- > Please post or send me info on how to create large aliases...
- >
- >
- > thanks in advance,
- > andrew
- > --
- > andrew@cubetech.com | "We cannot dwell in the time that is to come,
- > Andrew Loewenstern | lest we lose our now for a phantom of our
- > Cube Technologies, Inc. | own design." - Erendis
- > 0000000701B61D1ADF0DFC9C16185CEA055200000007EB4A9FEB1922065D471A89E905B5
-
- Try the undocumented include feature: (documented on suns ...)
- (It works for Ultrix too, I'm just [right today] testing it on the NeXT)
-
- The syntax for the aliases file:
-
- <alias-name>: :include:<path and file name>
-
- In NetInfo add a new value with the syntax:
-
- :include:<path and file name>
-
- where the values in <> are to be set appropriately. Then enter all the
- names/addresses, one per line, into the file specified by <path and file name>.
-
- Sendmail will then parse the file - so you don't even need to rebuild the
- aliases when you make changes!
-
- --
- Robert Frank tel. + (061) 321 99 67
- Institut fuer Informatik fax + (061) 321 99 15
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