Using /etc/aliases with groups

[Eucke]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Silberberg" <jsilberberg at mindspring.com>
To: "General Red Hat Linux discussion list" <redhat-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 6:04 PM
Subject: Re: Using /etc/aliases with groups


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> everyone:       user1, user2, user3, .....................
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> At 07:23 PM 9/3/2004, you wrote:
> >I have been googling and I have not hit upon a keyword combination that
> >will shed light on this.  I would like to create a Group for mass
emailing
> >users on a server.  I have tried  adding a line like
> >
> >everyone:        users
> >
> >but the email ends up being rejected.  This is a sendmail setup and, yes,
> >I did run newaliases after altering the /etc/aliases file.  Anyone doing
> >this?  Suggestions on how to implement?  I intend to only make the group
> >alias live when we want to do the mass Email and will disable it once it
> >is sent to prevent unauthorized use.

Yeah...that one I can do...but it requires ongoing maintenance and
caretaking.  I need this to route to a GROUP....

This is the error output when it fails:

----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
users
    (reason: 550 5.1.1 User unknown)
    (expanded from: <allemployees at testurl.com>)

   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
550 5.1.1 users... User unknown

Suggestions on where to look?

thanks!

-Eucke