Mail aliases help

[Poohba]

On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 01:18 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Poohba wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 20:19 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote:
> >> At 5:12 PM -0400 5/31/07, Poohba 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?
> >> Look at /var/log/maillog and see what happens to mail to that user and sent
> >> to the aliases.  If there isn't any, send some with the mail command:
> >>
> >>     mail -s test username
> >>     some text.
> >>     Ctrl-D
> >>     RETURN
> >> -- 
> >> ____________________________________________________________________
> >> TonyN.:'                       <mailto:tonynelson at georgeanelson.com>
> >>       '                              <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
> >>
> > stat=User Unknown
> > 
> 
> Was the username an actual user on the machine or one in your alias file?
> 
> Also, when you ran the newaliases command did you see an error message 
> or just the number of aliases processed?
> 
> -- 
>    Les Mikesell
>     lesmikesell at gmail.com
> 
The username is the actual user.  There were no errors with newaliases.
/etc/aliases: 81 aliases, longest 10 bytes, 830 bytes total