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From: huntting@colorado.edu
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: aliases:  There must be a better way
Message-ID: <1991Mar31.205235.2975@csn.org>
Date: 31 Mar 91 20:52:35 GMT
Sender: huntting@csn.org (Brad Huntting)
Organization: University of Colorado
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The aliases database needs to be (at many sites) distributed amongst
many machines.  At CU we do this with rdist, and an inhouse utility
called autoftp.  But this method is so prone to failure and high
maintaince that it doesn't cut it.

Has anyone hacked an option into sendmail to support the BIND `MB' and
`MG' records?  Are the're other options for a truly distributed
sendmail?  Perhaps a distributed `dbm' library?


brad
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brad