[cobalt-users] Question on aliases...

[Chip <chip@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, folks. 

I'm *still* a Linux newbie, and I'm trying to configure an alias so that
when Sendmail receives mail addressed to
"gangsix@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx" it will open the file
"gangsix.txt" and forward the received mail message to all of
the recipients contained in the file. 

I have this already working on a non-Cobalt Linux box. so I replicated
everything I could from that setup: 

1. Copied the text file from the working box to the Cobalt. 
2. edited /etc/aliases to add the line 
gangsix::include:/home/lists/gangsix.txt (cut-and-pasted from the aliases
file on the working box) 
3. Ran "newaliases"
4. Created the directory "/home/lists" and added the file
gangsix.txt
5. Made sure that the file and the directory are chmoded to provide group
and public read permission. 
6. Confirmed that the box is checked allowing email for the domain 

Here's the error I get back from sendmail: 

----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- 
<gangsix@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
:include:/home/lists/gangsix.txt 
(expanded from: <gangsix@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>)
----- Transcript of session follows ----- 
550 :include:/home/lists/gangsix.txt... Cannot open
/home/lists/gangsix.txt: Permission denied 
554 <gangsix@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>... aliasing/forwarding loop broken
Reporting-MTA: dns;
www.choicewebhost.com
Received-From-MTA: DNS; server52.aitcom.net 
Arrival-Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 03:14:23 -0500
Final-Recipient: RFC822; <gangsix@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
Action: failed 
Status: 5.4.6 
Last-Attempt-Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 03:14:23 -0500
Final-Recipient: RFC822; <gangsix@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
X-Actual-Recipient: RFC822; /home/lists/gangsix.txt@www.choicewebhost.com 
Action: failed 
Status: 5.2.4 
Last-Attempt-Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 03:14:23 -0500 

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? 

All help appreciated!