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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users sendmail aliases not being honored Post 95351 by dangral on Tuesday 10th of January 2006 03:26:27 PM
Old 01-10-2006
sendmail aliases not being honored

Running sendmail Version 8.12.10+Sun on Solaris 9.

I need to send mail from this server (serverA) to the mail server (Mserver), which will relay the message to the correct user. If I specify the user specifically, as in:
Code:
mailx -s"test" John.Doe@company.com
test
.

It works perfectly and the message is delivered. But if I try to use an alias, sendmail never expands the alias and just tries to send the mail as the alias. For example, in /etc/mail/aliases I have an entry that says:

Quote:
root: John.Doe@company.com,Jim.Bob@company.com
But it gets sent out like this:

Quote:
serverA:/etc/mail# root... Connecting to Mserver.company.com. via relay...
220 Mserver.company.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.13.3+Sun/8.13.3; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 15:19:50 -0500 (EST)
>>> EHLO Mserver.company.com
250-Mserver.company.com Hello serverA.company.com [192.168.0.4], pleased to meet you
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-PIPELINING
250-EXPN
250-VERB
250-8BITMIME
250-SIZE 10485760
250-DSN
250-ETRN
250-DELIVERBY
250 HELP
>>> MAIL From:<Jim@serverA.company.com> SIZE=53
250 2.1.0 <Jim@serverA.company.com>... Sender ok
>>> RCPT To:<root@serverA.company.com>
>>> DATA
550 5.7.1 <root@serverA.company.com>... Relaying denied
503 5.0.0 Need RCPT (recipient)
>>> RSET
250 2.0.0 Reset state
 

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SENDMAILCONFIG(8)					      System Manager's Manual						 SENDMAILCONFIG(8)

NAME
sendmailconfig - configure sendmail for Debian systems SYNOPSIS
sendmailconfig [--no-reload] DESCRIPTION
sendmailconfig is used to simplify the configuration of sendmail(8) for use on Debian systems. In the simplest case, you may run this program to (re)configure sendmail for your Debian system at any time. It will modify the file /etc/mail/sendmail.mc in order to create a working sendmail configuration which will be written to the file /etc/mail/sendmail.cf. For advanced configurations, you can modify the sendmail.mc file before generating sendmail.cf. Future invokations of sendmailconfig will preserve these changes provided they are made at the end of the file. Normally sendmailconfig will ask if you want to reload sendmail after making changes to its configuration. The --no-reload option will avoid this question. FILES
/etc/mail/sendmail.mc sendmail m4 input to generate sendmail.cf /etc/mail/sendmail.cf actual sendmail configuration file /etc/mail/sendmail.cw names for which we will accept mail in the standard configuration /etc/mail/sendmail.ct names of trusted users in the standard configuration SEE ALSO
sendmail(8) AUTHOR
Robert Leslie <rob@mars.org> 21-Jan-1997 SENDMAILCONFIG(8)
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