Shell Programming and Scripting

hi,

I added an email id to a list of existing aliases in .mailrc on my unix box, using vi editor. However, the new id has not been receiving any mails from the box.
Kindly help as to what needs to be done here. Does the box need to be rebooted for these changes to reflect? Is there any other workaround? Thanks!

Can you describe the problem more precisely? Especially this: "the new id has not been receiving any mails from the box"

According to https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19683-01...-44/index.html mail aliases are private and thus can only be used by the user who has setup them.

Hope this helps.

Okie - Sorry for the confusion. Will try explaining again - hope the picture gets clearer now.

My intent - I am trying to add a new userid to an existing alias in .mailrc.

Overview:-
There are scripts (that send mails to groups defined in .mailrc) cronned on a unix box - these scripts run from a user(for e.g:- abcd). I switched user (sudo su - abcd) to abcd and then updated the .mailrc to add a new email id as below:

Original .mailrc content:-
#
alias amigos john@abc.com
#

Updated .mailrc to:-
#
alias amigos john@abc.com sally@abc.com
#

Earlier only john received mails sent through these scripts.

Problem:- Post the update even Sally should have received them. She is not receiving the mails sent out by these scripts running as abcd user on the unix box. Any idea why?

Thanks - Let me know if the issue is still unclear.

Perfect explanation.

I sort of emulated the situation by adding a cronjob for my oracle user on Solaris 10 and this job calls a shellscript that sends emails to a mail alias.
I then extended the alias with another email address and this change was inherited on the fly without reboot or something.

Can you exclude obvious typos and/or unwanted carriage returns in the .mailrc file?
If yes, my only idea is to try sending mail to the particular alias on the command line.
I wonder if that would work. If yes, then - from the perspective of the cron-ed scripts - the mail aliases are not read from the .mailrc file at all!

Maybe the scripts are reading from the public mail aliases file /etc/aliases ?

The file $HOME/.mailrc is only used to set up aliases when you send mail; it will not affect mail sent by other users. The /etc/aliases file sets up aliases that can be used by anyone who sends mail from your system.

Thankyou!

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Thanks!