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From: cevert@airgun.wg.waii.com (Christopher C. Evert)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: aliases database
Message-ID: <929@airgun.wg.waii.com>
Date: 27 Mar 91 23:09:16 GMT
Organization: Western Geophysical, Houston
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I am installing sendmail v5.65 + IDA 1.4.2 on an IBM RT and I want to take
advantage of xalparse to generate my aliases and genericfrom databases.
I used ida/lib/xaliases as the model for my xaliases file and generated
what to me looked like a good aliases file, but when I ran
sendmail -bi, it complained about `@'s in the left hand side.
So, I tried to get ida/aux/dbm to generate the .pag and .dir file.
(This file got created with 2 links and all, but I don't know how to look at
it for correctness, which may be my problem after all.)
Now, when I send mail to an alias, I eventually get an ... User unknown
message.
The generics database seems to work just fine.

So, my question is:
How do I build a correct aliases database?
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Christopher C. Evert     cevert@airgun.wg.waii.com     uunet!airgun!cevert