The mailing list for listmasters using Sympa

[Patrick Cossette <address@concealed>]

If you prefer (and especially if you made changes to to your sendmail.cf 
after generating it with m4), you can edit in sendmail.cf the line
        O AliasFile=/etc/aliases,/etc/mail/sympa_aliases

Bye.

At 2003-06-03 (04:27), you wrote:
> 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



Patrick Cossette
Analyste Système - Maître de poste - Webmestre
Service de soutien pédagogique et technologique
Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
Tél.: (819) 376-5011, poste 2462
Courriel: address@concealed
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