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[address@concealed]

As directed in Chapter 9 of the online documentation, I tried adding a second 
set of aliases for a second virtual robot. I didn't realize until today that 
there is a problem with this method.

With the Sendmail alias file, the left hand side (LHS) MUST be a local unique 
address, so it quietly disregards anything after a @ character. This then 
causes Sendmail to regard one set of the aliases as a "duplicate" and only 
aliases the last duplicate entry, disregarding all others.

This has the effect that, if your aliases file looked like

sympa:             "| /home/sympa/bin/queue sympa"
listmaster:        "| /home/sympa/bin/queue listmaster"

address@concealed "| /home/sympa/bin/queue address@concealed"
address@concealed "| /home/sympa/bin/queue address@concealed"

The first two entries will be disregarded, and so anyone trying to send any 
list commands destined for lists on robot setup in /etc/sympa.conf (first set 
of aliases), their emails will actually get sent to the second virtual robot 
queue.

The best way I could get this to work is, create entries in the 
virtusertable.db, such as

address@concealed         sympa2
address@concealed    listmaster2

Then create entries in the aliases file to give you this
sympa:             "| /home/sympa/bin/queue sympa"
listmaster:        "| /home/sympa/bin/queue listmaster"

sympa2:          "| /home/sympa/bin/queue address@concealed"
listmaster2:     "| /home/sympa/bin/queue address@concealed"

Sorry if this is already explained elsewhere, but I didn't see it in the 
documentation, FAQ, or list archives, hope it helps someone.

This was all tested on Sendmail 8.11.6, and has been working wonderfully for 
me.


Jayson Strudwick