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- From: eric@CS.Berkeley.EDU (Eric Allman)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
- Subject: Re: Does alias lookup iterate?
- Date: 30 Dec 1992 18:07:59 GMT
- Organization: UC Berkeley Mammoth Project
- Lines: 24
- Sender: eric@mastodon.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Eric Allman)
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- Message-ID: <1hsohvINNleo@agate.berkeley.edu>
- References: <1992Dec30.172952.3042@unison.com>
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- Keywords: sendmail alias
-
- In article <1992Dec30.172952.3042@unison.com>, mac@unison.com (Michael A. Casteel) writes:
- |> What I have repeatedly bitten myself with would be solved if sendmail
- |> iterated alias lookup. A brief example:
- |>
- |> STAFF john,fred
- |> ...
- |> john johnh@somewhere
- |>
- |> This just DOESN'T seem to work, I get complaints that john doesn't
- |> exist when I mail to STAFF. You see, I was SO used to mailing to
- |> john (NOT johnh@somewhere) that I just used 'john' when I added
- |> STAFF. Gets me every time.
- |>
- |> Version 5.65 of sendmail (it's HP-UX 8.0).
-
- HPUX may have broken it -- but I can assure you, iterated (I think
- of them as recursive) aliases do work in all versions of sendmail
- from Berkeley.
-
- By the way, there are colons in the sendmail aliases file -- are you
- sure you aren't using some other aliasing mechanism, such as one
- provided by your user agent?
-
- eric
-