Sendmail / Email copy - Fixed

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Mi, den 17.03.2004 schrieb admin at kclinux.net um 21:57:
> It did work, in a way.  I ssh'ed into the box, and manually edited
> /etc/aliases.  
> 
> I ran newaliases, and it worked on sending it to the PCS phones and the
> pager, but the account no longer was getting the emails when checked via
> IMAP.  
> 
> After playing around, I changed the line for this account:
> emergency: SPRINT-PCS-EMAIL,SPRINT-PCS-EMAIL,SPRINT-PCS-EMAIL,PAGER-NUMER
> to this:
> emergency:
> SPRINT-PCS-EMAIL,SPRINT-PCS-EMAIL,SPRINT-PCS-EMAIL,PAGER-NUMER,emergency

Be careful! As Tom already said you made a loop. The line above have to
be:

emergency:
\emergeny,SPRINT-PCS-EMAIL,SPRINT-PCS-EMAIL,SPRINT-PCS-EMAIL,PAGER-NUMER

To explain:

localuser:    \localuser, userb, userc

This will deliver the mail to the LHS recipient and copies to userb and
userc without causing a loop for the LHS.

> Adding the emergency to the end of the line got the emails going back to the
> local account, and it's now going to all the PCS phones and pager.
> 
> Thanx so much for that tip.  I though restarting sendmail would of loaded
> the new aliases, but I guess not.  The newaliases command worked, and then
> adding the local account name to the end, got the emails going to the
> account.

Yes, the init script calls newaliases in the start case.

Alexander


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