The mailing list for listmasters using Sympa

[Aumont - Comite Reseaux des Universites <address@concealed>]

address@concealed wrote:

> If I create new list, alias_manager.pl makes aliases for that list into file 
> named /etc/mail/sympa_aliases. But if I try to send a message to that list, 
> sendmail says, no such user. if I copy aliases to file /etc/aliases and run 
> newaliases, then I can send messages to that list. What's the problem? I use 
> Redhat 7.3, sendmail-8.11.6-23.73 and self-compiled sympa-3.4.3.1.
>  
Sympa's RPM do not change sendmail configuration so 
/etc/mail/sympa_aliases is ignored by sendmail. You need to modify 
sendmail.mc for aliases definition according the following line :

define(`ALIAS_FILE',`/etc/mail/aliases,/etc/mail/sympa_aliases')dnl

Then rebuild sendmail.cf with the appropriate m4 command.

It look like the following on my system :
m4 -D_CF_DIR_=/sendmail/current-version/cf/ 
/sendmail/current-version/cf/m4/cf.m4 sendmail.mc > sendmail.cf