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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers sendmail error :-( Post 16068 by Perderabo on Monday 25th of February 2002 11:14:56 AM
Old 02-25-2002
Quote:
Originally posted by guest100
I think the sendmail is trying to send a mail to user "none" which does not exist.
Yeah it is, but only because someone told it to. Maybe that clarify package needs some help with mail?

If nothing else you could alias none to nobody. But the real solution is to find the guy who's sending mail to none and straighten him out.
 

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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS

praliases

praliases(1)							   User Commands						      praliases(1)

NAME

       praliases - display system mail aliases

SYNOPSIS

       praliases [-C configfile] [-f aliasfile] [key]

DESCRIPTION

       The  praliases  utility displays system mail aliases. When no key is given, praliases displays the current system aliases, one per line, in
       no particular order. The form is key:value. If a key is given, only that key is looked up and the appropriate  key:value  is  displayed	if
       found.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       -C configfile	Specifies a sendmail configuration file.

       -f aliasfile	Reads the specified file aliasfile instead of the default sendmail system aliases file.

OPERANDS

       The following operands are supported:

       key    A specific alias key to look up.

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0     Successful operation.

       >0    An error occurred.

FILES

       /etc/mail/aliases	Default sendmail system aliases file

       /etc/mail/aliases.db	Database versions of the /etc/mail/aliases file

       /etc/mail/aliases.dir	Database versions of the /etc/mail/aliases file
       /etc/mail/aliases.pag

       /etc/mail/sendmail.cf	Default sendmail configuration file

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWsndmu 		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       mailq(1), newaliases(1M), sendmail(1M), attributes(5)

SunOS 5.11							    29 Mar 2004 						      praliases(1)
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