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# 8  
Old 01-11-2006
Code:
ls -l /etc/mail/alias* /usr/lib/sendmail
-rw-r--r--   1 root     bin          399 Jan 10 14:56 /etc/mail/aliases
-rw-r-----   1 root     smmsp      40960 Jan 10 14:55 /etc/mail/aliases.db
-r-xr-sr-x   1 root     smmsp     976724 Sep 23  2003 /usr/lib/sendmail*

# 9  
Old 01-11-2006
Then check /etc/mail/sendmail.cf - O AliasFile=/etc/aliases
or O AliasFile=/etc/mail/aliases

If it's /etc/aliases, make sure there is a link for it to /etc/mail/aliases.
# 10  
Old 01-11-2006
Those file permissions match what I have. How about:
grep aliases /etc/nsswitch.conf
# 11  
Old 01-11-2006
Quote:
Originally Posted by RTM
Then check /etc/mail/sendmail.cf - O AliasFile=/etc/aliases
or O AliasFile=/etc/mail/aliases

If it's /etc/aliases, make sure there is a link for it to /etc/mail/aliases.
I think youre onto something. I thought that sendmail checks the /etc/mail/aliases file by default. Anyways I looked and it was commented out, so I uncommented it and saved the file. Then I ran newaliases and got this. I must have something misconfigured.

Code:
/etc/mail/aliases: line 11: MAILER-DAEMON... cannot alias non-local names
/etc/mail/aliases: line 12: postmaster... cannot alias non-local names
/etc/mail/aliases: line 13: nobody... cannot alias non-local names
/etc/mail/aliases: line 15: root... cannot alias non-local names
/etc/mail/aliases: line 17: some-admins... cannot alias non-local names
/etc/mail/aliases: 0 aliases, longest 0 bytes, 0 bytes total

# 12  
Old 01-11-2006
Quote:
Originally Posted by Perderabo
Those file permissions match what I have. How about:
grep aliases /etc/nsswitch.conf
# grep aliases /etc/nsswitch.conf
aliases: files
# 13  
Old 01-11-2006
OK so I found this on the sendmail FAQ:
Quote:
Subject: Q4.10 -- How can I solve "cannot alias non-local names" errors?
Date: March 24, 1997

I upgraded from my vendor's sendmail to the latest version and now I'm getting these error messages when I run "newaliases":

/etc/aliases: line 13: MAILER-DAEMON... cannot alias non-local names
/etc/aliases: line 14: postmaster... cannot alias non-local names

How can I solve this problem?

Your local mailer doesn't have the "A" flag specified. Edit the Mlocal line in sendmail.cf and add "A" to the flags listed after "F=".

Better yet, if you're running a recent version of sendmail that uses m4 to generate .cf files from .mc files, regenerate your sendmail.cf and see if that fixes the problem. Remember to install the new sendmail.cf and restart the sendmail daemon.
So I added A to the flags after F=.

It now looks like this:

Code:
Mlocal,         P=/bin/mail, F=lsDFM5qPrmn9A, S=EnvFromL/HdrFromL, R=EnvToL/HdrToL,
                T=DNS/RFC822/X-Unix,
                A=mail -d $u

Ran newaliases and it worked fine. Sent an email to root and I got the same error. However:

Code:
 /usr/lib/sendmail -bv root
John.Doe@company.com... deliverable: mailer relay, host Mserver.company.com, user John.Doe@company.com
Jim.Bob@company.com... deliverable: mailer relay, host Mserver.company.com, user Jim.Bob@company.com

# 14  
Old 01-11-2006
Replying to myself once again.

I was reading up on sunsolve and found that I cannot use aliases unless I am running the sendmail daemon. I neglected to mention earlier on in the thread that I was not running the daemon, which probably would have tipped you guys off. My apologies for that. Here's a link to the Sunsolve article
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