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From: msir@sulu.cc.rochester.edu (Mark Sirota)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: #include equivalent for aliases file
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Date: 24 Jul 90 19:19:15 GMT
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I would really like to see an additional feature for sendmail - the
equivalent of the C preprocessor's #include statement for the aliases file.

This would make it much easier for me to maintain my aliases file, and the
newaliases command could handle the hard work before translating to dbm
format.

Has anyone done this?  I am really not interested in my own hacked version
of sendmail, but I'd really like to see this functionality find it's way
into the official sendmail (starting at Berkeley and working it's way into
the various derivatives).  Is there any chance of that happening?  If the
appropriate person doesn't read comp.mail.sendmail, to whom should I send
this suggestion?
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