Mail aliases help

[Poohba]

On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 23:21 +0000, Rick Ellis wrote:
> In article <1180645929.28415.79.camel at rob-campbell.com>,
> Poohba  <fedora-list at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> >I added aliases to /etc/mail/aliases in the form of username	:
> >alias1,alias2,alias3.  I then did 'newaliases' and then i restarted
> >sendmail.  What else should I be doing?
> 
> You don't need to restart sendmail for changes to the aliases
> file. Do you have sendmail setup completely? It doesn't come
> configured for incoming email.
> 
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I get email and have been for years.  I am just trying to add an alias
now for the first time.