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From: rob@planet.bt.co.uk (Richard O'Brien)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: YP aliases on VAX & SUN
Message-ID: <1990Sep17.103319.9262@planet.bt.co.uk>
Date: 17 Sep 90 10:33:19 GMT
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From article <1889@infbs.UUCP>, by neitzel@infbs.uucp (Martin Neitzel):
> 
> I have no success with YP aliases on an Ethernet with both a VAX and a
> SUN.  The YP mail aliases are defined on the VAX (running Ultrix), and
> "ypcat aliases" works fine on the Sun.  The Sun runs the standard
> sendmail from its 4.0.3 OS.
> 
> According to the docs it should look up aliases first in/etc/aliases
> and then in the YP.  However, the Sun doesn't recognize any of the YP
> aliases.
> 
> * Any hints?
> 
I had the same problem about a year ago. Following a considerable amount of
assistance from Chris Gerhard (Sun UK support), a bug was found and corrected
in Sun's Sendmail. I believe this was a local (unofficial) fix at the time, but
has since been officially corrected for the V4.1 Sendmail. I seem to remember
it being associated with leading spaces at the front of the YP aliases.

Hope this is of use.
Richard.

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