Hello OSF guru's,
I'm trying to configure sendmail to work with group aliases.
When I add the line
> our_group: user1,user2,user3
to /usr/var/adm/sendmail/aliases, everything works fine.
However, when I create a file /usr/var/adm/sendmail/our_group.list
(containing user1, user2 & user3 on separate lines) and add the
following line to /usr/var/adm/sendmail/aliases,
> our_group: ":include:/usr/var/adm/sendmail/our_group.list"
I get the following error from our mail-daemon (mserv.rug.ac.be)
> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> While talking to mserv.rug.ac.be:
> >>> RCPT To:<":include:/usr/var/adm/sendmail/our_group.list">
> <<< 550 <":include:/usr/var/adm/sendmail/our_group.list">... User unknown
> 550 ":include:/usr/var/adm/sendmail/our_group.list"... User unknown
Sendmail obviously doesn't know how to correctly interpret a line
starting with ':include'.
The sendmail man-pages say ...
> Aliases can also have the syntax :include:filename to ask sendmail to read
> the named file for a list of recipients. For example, an alias such as:
>
> poets: ":include:/usr/local/lib/poets.list"
>
> reads /usr/local/lib/poets.list for the list of addresses making up the
> group.
which seems to be exactly what I have done.
Before you ask: yes, I have run 'newaliases' afterwards, and I have
even restarted the whole sendmail.
We are running OSF/1 3.0 on a DEC 3000-600.
Can anyone help me out ?
Erik
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Received on Thu Oct 26 1995 - 18:36:04 NZDT