Re: [cobalt-users] Email forwarding on RaQ3

["Robert G. Fisher" <rfisher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 07:17:43PM -0700, Jeff Lasman wrote:
> 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".

You have a valid point there...See...I think the confusion might be 
where I sometimes tend to be too smart/literal for my own good.  ;-)

"newaliases" and "sendmail -bi" are NEW sendmail processes that read
the sendmail.cf file, and thus catch the new 'O AliasFile=' directives.

The process already running that listens to port 25 has already 
read the sendmail.cf file, and the child processes that fork(2)
off to handle queue processing or incoming connection are branching
off after the sendmail.cf has been read as well.

So what this means, is you can use newaliases/sendmail -bi to 
initialize the alias maps -- but if you want the new alias map
to work on incoming connections, you will need to restart the
sendmail daemon process.

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Robert G. Fisher                  Sitestar.net, Inc. 
Senior System Engineer            (540) 666-9533 x 116