Re: newaliases changed?

From: Peter <list-freebsd-questions_at_jyborn.se>
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2024 23:23:19 UTC
Hello!

On Mon, Feb 05, 2024 at 04:15:02PM -0700, Gary Aitken wrote:
> Recently upgraded from 12.4 to 13.2
> When I run newaliases, I get a bunch of complaints for things that
> used to work fine:
> /etc/mail/aliases: line 88: goodfriends: ... missing value for alias
> /etc/mail/aliases: line 89: Non-continuation line starts with space
> 
> The entries in question look like this:
> 
> #friends: (bad addrs)
> #         foo@bentley.unco.edu, #      bentley.unco.edu: host not found
> #         baz@kcs.keene.k12.ny.us
> 
> goodfriends:
>           foo1@blackfoot.net, \
>           foo2@comcast.net, \
>           foo3@aol.com, \
>           foo4@fatquailfarm.com, \
>           foo5@sbcglobal.net, \
>           foo6@blackfoot.net, \
>           foo7@tnc.org, \
>           foo8@aol.com, \
>           foo9@hotmail.com, \
>           foo10@blackfoot.net
> 
> This is a cut and paste, obviously; the whitespace is all blanks.
> huh?
> Thanks for any tips.
> 
> Gary

I don't know the proper syntax, but based on the errors
I think that a " \" after "goodfriends:" could work.

Peter