Re: [cobalt-users] alias :include:

["WebMost" <rdavis@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ahoy

But ...  include works for majordomo.

Not for sendmail.

Yes, I typed newaliases. I also tried newaliases -v, which, according to
sendmail docs, should have generated a warning for any included file which
would create problems. It gave me no warning. But the mail bounces back with
a :

    550 :include:/home/sites/siteX/mail_lists/test.list... Cannot
   open /home/sites/siteX/mail_lists/test.list: Group writable directory
   554 <testmail@xxxxxxxxxx>... aliasing/forwarding loop broken

This all happens regardless of permissions or ownerships or what directory.

Steven Werby was good enough to attempt a similar include on his RaQ2.
Same result.

So, it works with majordomo, fails with sendmail
works on the Qube, fails on the RaQ

Aloha

----- Original Message -----
From: Dom Latter <qube@xxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, January 07, 2000 2:33 PM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] alias :include:


> WebMost wrote:
> >
> > Ahoy
> > >    $ cat /etc/aliases.majordomo | grep include
>
> Strange.... any reason not to just type
>
> $ grep include /etc/aliases.majordomo
>
> > But this is not a majordomo question. This is a sendmail question. I am
not
> > using majordomo for this. I am not aliasing in "aliases.majordomo", but
> > rather in "aliases". I am not trying to run a "mailing list", but only
> > trying to email to a list of addresses.
>
> AIUI, aliases.majordomo and aliases have exactly the same format.
>
> So it was a perfectly valid sendmail answer to a sendmail question.
>
> > I am simply trying to "alias:    :include:/path/to/file"
> >
> > Has someone succeeded in including a file via alias? What on the RaQ2
> > disables this very simple sendmail function?
>
> I've just done a test on a Qube and it works fine.  You *did* remember
> "newaliases", didn't you?
>
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