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Redmond Militante wrote:

> Isn't alias_manager.pl supposed to run 'newaliases' via aliaswrapper, whenever it is run?                         
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> On our sympa installation, I can run alias_manager.pl from the command line, and when I create a new list via     
> wwsympa.fcgi, alias_manager.pl runs and appends new list aliases to /etc/mail/sympa.aliases - but it looks like it
> is not running 'newaliases' after appending to sympa.aliases.  I have to log in as root and run 'newaliases'      
> manually in order to successfully send mail to my new list, otherwise I get a mail delivery notification telling  
> me that the message can't be delivered because the recipient is unknown - running 'newaliases' fixes this.        
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> Do I have to recompile in order to get alias_manager.pl to run newaliases for me?  Or do people usually just      
> newaliases as a cron job?                                                                                         
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> Thanks.      
>  
At the end, if you are in troubles because of that, you may configre 
sendmail to automatically rebuild aliases when needed (I  remember the 
option is named  AutoRebuildAlias )