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From: mrl@uai.com (Mark R. Ludwig)
Subject: Re: NIS Aliases being ignored
In-Reply-To: rd@zildjian.chorus.fr (Roland Dirlewanger)
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References: <1991May22.220010.7695@uai.com> <10797@chorus.fr>
Date: Fri, 24 May 91 15:00:12 GMT

In article <10797@chorus.fr>, rd@zildjian (Roland Dirlewanger) writes:
>In article <1991May22.220010.7695@uai.com>, I wrote:
>%% 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.

No, sendmail is not playing with NFS.  However, you've indirectly
answered a question I hadn't yet posed to the net about putting the
mail spool on an NFS partition.  In thinking about it, avoiding
aliases in such an environment is *probably* the correct thing to do.$$
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