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From: rd@zildjian.chorus.fr (Roland Dirlewanger)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun,comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: NIS Aliases being ignored
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Date: 23 May 91 09:14:36 GMT
References: <1991May22.220010.7695@uai.com>
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In article <1991May22.220010.7695@uai.com>, mrl@uai.com (Mark R. Ludwig) writes:

%% 
%% Configuration:
%% 
%% 	Sun-4/260
%% 	SunOS 4.1[.0?]
%% 	Vanilla sendmail (not .mx)
%% 	Modified sendmail.main
%% 
%% I have been unable to get sendmail to honor the NIS aliases.  NIS is
%% working fine, in general (ypcat, et al.).  These same aliases *are*
%% working on Ultrix.

There's a feature(?) introduced in SunOS 4.1's sendmail: aliasing is
always turned off if the mail spool directory (/var/spool/mail) is
NFS mounted, no matter if the aliases are handled by NIS or not.

May be that's the problem. Unfortunately, I see no simple way to fix it.

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