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From: kerr@tron.UUCP (Dave Kerr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Problems with mail: pager, aliases
Summary: use m option for sendmail
Keywords: BSD mail pager aliases SR10.1
Message-ID: <462@tron.UUCP>
Date: 30 Nov 89 03:32:42 GMT
References: <865@extro.ucc.su.oz>
Reply-To: kerr@tron.UMD.EDU (Dave Kerr)
Organization: Westinghouse Electric Corporation
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In article <865@extro.ucc.su.oz> jimr@extro.ucc.su.oz (Jim Richardson) writes:
>[]
>We are having two annoying problems with BSD mail at SR10.1.
>
>(A)  The PAGER option of /bsd4.3/usr/ucb/mail does not work.  If within mail
>one says
>

[ ...text deleted I'm not at a node to try this out ]

>(B)  How do you get sendmail to accept two or more usernames as the value of
>an alias?  I tried putting the line
>
>postmaster: root, jimr
>
>in the aliases file, then running newaliases.  If I then send mail to
>postmaster, using /usr/ucb/mail with "set verbose" on, I see the following:

[.. text deleted ]

This one I can answer. There's an option in sendmail to
include the sender in an alias expansion that includes
himself. Set option "m" it in your sendmail.cf 
file. 


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