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- Path: sparky!uunet!caen!paul
- From: paul@engin.umich.edu (Paul Killey)
- Subject: Re: Sendmail not using aliases sometimes
- Message-ID: <tHk-th-@engin.umich.edu>
- Date: Sat, 29 Aug 92 03:03:31 EDT
- Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
- References: <1992Aug26.221205.2486@zia.aoc.nrao.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug26.221205.2486@zia.aoc.nrao.edu> pgreen@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Philip Green) writes:
- >We have recently started see a strange problem on one of our
- >machines.
- >
- >Sometimes incoming mail is delivered locally instead of being
- >forwarded to the address in /etc/aliases. Incoming mail to
- >joeuser@aoc.nrao.edu is deliverd locally even though the
- >aliases file specifies otherwise.
- >
- >Any help or hints would be appreciated!
-
- Suppose my login id is paul, and i am aliased to paul@someotherhost.foo.edu. the
- gecos field for me is :paul killey:. if someone mails to 'paul_killey' and not 'paul'
- it will match on the passwd file entry but not do the alias look up.
-
- at least, seems that way here. finduser() is checked after alias(), and then
- (if verbose) you will see
- paul_killey... sending to login name paul
- paul_killey... Connecting to (local)...
- paul_killey... Sent
-
- and the mail is local, and not sent to the alias.
-
- double check and see what the messages that end up local have for a recipient's address.
-
- --paul
-