[cobalt-users] Re: email aliases not working HELP!

[erik hansen <erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 10/4/01 1:05 PM, Steve Werby at steve-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> "erik hansen" <erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> having a problem with email aliases on a Raq4 - they don't work at all.
> it
>> doesn't seem to matter whether or not i add the aliases when creating a
> new
>> user or adding an alias to an existing user.
> 
> What happens?  Error messages?  Output in /var/log/maillog?  sendmail -bv
> alias_here to see what the output says.

i set up an alias for myself "eric" (since many people misspell it).

[root log]# /usr/sbin/sendmail -bv eric
eric... User unknown


looking in /var/log/maillog i see these lines that look like errors (not in
order):

Oct  4 09:44:28 ns1 sendmail[23433]: f94DiSF23433: <eric@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>...
User unknown

Oct  4 14:27:20 ns1 sendmail[9620]: f94IRKR09620: <test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>...
User unknown

Oct  4 14:39:36 ns1 sendmail[10207]: gethostbyaddr(66.33.105.148) failed: 1
Oct  4 14:39:36 ns1 sendmail[10207]: gethostbyaddr(66.33.105.149) failed: 1
Oct  4 14:39:36 ns1 sendmail[10207]: gethostbyaddr(66.33.105.152) failed: 1
Oct  4 14:39:46 ns1 sendmail[10228]: gethostbyaddr(66.33.105.148) failed: 1
Oct  4 14:39:46 ns1 sendmail[10228]: gethostbyaddr(66.33.105.149) failed: 1
Oct  4 14:39:46 ns1 sendmail[10228]: gethostbyaddr(66.33.105.152) failed: 1

running newaliases, i get this:
[root mail]# newaliases
/etc/mail/aliases: 17 aliases, longest 10 bytes, 189 bytes total
/etc/mail/aliases.majordomo: 42 aliases, longest 83 bytes, 2124 bytes total