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- From: kurrer@glasgow.ks.uiuc.edu (Christian Kurrer)
- Subject: Re: aliases
- References: <1992Aug9.215721.872@net23.uucp>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 21:06:42 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug9.215721.872@net23.uucp> coke%net23@spectrx.saigon.com
- (Brian Policky) writes:
- > I am having some old aliases showing up. I looked in the net info and in
- > the /LocalLibrary/Images/People/aliases and have not found it. I have
- also
- > looked at the users .mailalias file. The alias that shows up isn't in
- any
- > of those places, and when I put a different alias for the same word in
- the
- > /LocalLibrary/Images/People/aliases file, it is still overridden with
- this
- > phantom alias. I need to know of all of the places where sendmail (or
- > whatever) looks for aliases. I am running a lone NeXTcube with 2.1 OS.
- >
- > Thanks
- >
- > coke%net23@spectrx.saigon.com
-
- I have fought a long war on aliases, but I seem to be on the winning side.
- Here is my recipe that I use (as root) to update the aliases:
-
- mailserver# Edit /etc/sendmail/aliases
- mailserver# newaliases
- mailserver# cp /etc/sendmail/aliases /LocalLibrary/Images/People/aliases
- mailserver# niload -v -d aliases / < /etc/sendmail/aliases
-
- I think that the mail system is pretty messy and certainly could need some
- streamlining (system 3.0, where are you?). A lot of confusion arises from
- the fact that three different needs have to be considered:
- -Unix, which requires you to run newaliases so that they are recognized by
- sendmail
- -Netinfo, which want you to put all the Unix info in the NI database
- -and Mail, which seems to be too lazy to look for aliases anywhere else
- than in /LocalLibrary/Images/People.
-
- Two comments: 1. The recipe works, which is more than I usually expect.
- 2. There might be some overkill involved; any comments on this are
- welcome, but nevertheless consider point 1.
-
- Christian Kurrer
- kurrer@lisboa.ks.uiuc.edu
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