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From: gemini@geminix.mbx.sub.org (Uwe Doering)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: smail 3.x
Message-ID: <5VBIXO@geminix.mbx.sub.org>
Date: 9 Aug 90 09:03:23 GMT
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jessea@dynasys.UUCP (Jesse W. Asher) writes:

>I'm not sure what is going on, but I just install smail 3.1.18.1 and
>the aliasing function doesn't seem to be working very well.  I've got
>/usr/lib/aliases set up in the following fashion:
>
>jesse:jessea
>
>so that any mail coming in for jesse will be routed to jessea.  I ran
>mkaliases to create the /usr/lib/aliases.sort file.  The above line is
>also in that file.  A message sent to jesse failed, however.  Can anyone
>give me any pointers on what may be wrong.  Yes, I did configure the
>EDITME file to use /usr/lib/aliases.  Any ideas?

With smail 3.1 you are supposed to run the `newaliases' program in the
smail lib directory. This works for me.

      Uwe
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