2 problems with aliases in sendmail
Kevin Crowston
crowston at athena.mit.edu
Sun Nov 12 14:42:50 AEST 1989
I'm having two problems with aliases using the sendmail distributed
with AU/X.
1. I want to set up a mailing list with about 60 names. When I
put these in the /usr/lib/aliases file and run newaliases,
however, I get an error message saying, in effect, that that's
too many names (actually, what it says is first that the line
is too long and then that I have an illegal continuation line).
How can I expand this limit? I thought of making it a two level
list (i.e., list expands to list1, list2, etc., each of which
expands to 10 names), but I don't think that's such a great answer.
2. According to the sendmail man page, you can have sendmail include
files in the aliases by using ":include:file". When I did this,
the database had ":include:file" as the translation for name, rather
than the contents of the file. When I tried to test this with
/usr/lib/sendmail -bt name, I got an error message. So, why can't
I do this? Or is the test mode of sendmail wrong? Or is the
documentation wrong?
Kevin Crowston
P.S. Do any Apple people read this list?
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