Re: [cobalt-users] Email forwarding on RaQ3

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Robert G. Fisher" wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 01:21:31PM -0700, Jeff Lasman wrote:
> > My understanding is that "newaliases" does NOT reread the sendmail.cf
> > file and will NOT pick up the new aliases.local file.
> 
> False.  Simple test confirms this.  If you add O AliasFile=blah
> then "newaliases" will pick this up.  Keep in mind that the file
> "newaliases" is generally installed as a symlink to sendmail.
> 
> Sendmail simply checks argv[0] against "newaliases" and if it
> matches, it runs as though you had given the -bi command line
> argument to it...and since it creates a new sendmail process,
> it re-reads the sendmail.cf file.

What's not intuitive to me is that the new sendmail process reads in the
sendmail.cf file into the memory of the process "accepting mail on port
25".

I'll take your word that it does.

If I'm missing something, I'd appreciate an explanation.

Thanks.

Jeff
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