Sendmail not using aliases

[Steve Suhre]

No, just a generic "DSN: Data format error". The bounced message just 
says user unknown. If I rebuild the aliases and virtusertable db's I get 
nothing but new db files, no errors. No errors of any kind in the log 
files when sendmail starts during boot.



Giorgos Keramidas wrote:

>## Redirected to freebsd-questions from freebsd-hackers.
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>On 2005-09-07 06:35, Steve Suhre <tech at nano.net> wrote:
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>>I'm upgrading a server and have sendmail 8.13.1 installed. I've moved
>>the aliases and virtusertable files over and have run makemap and
>>newaliases. Sendmail has been complaining that it can't find aliased
>>users like postmaster and www. I doublechecked the aliases file and they
>>are there. If I add them to the virtusertable file, which I'd rather not
>>do, then sendmail stops complaining and delivers the mail. I checked for
>>the "-n" flag and it's not set when runnung sendmail at startup. I also
>>checked to see that the aliases file was in the correct place as
>>indicated in sendmail.cf.
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>That's funny.  Any hints in the log files?
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