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From: tony@mpg.phys.hawaii.edu (Antonio Querubin)
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Subject: Re: accepting mail for an alias hostname
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Date: 29 May 91 04:47:08 GMT
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In article <1991May29.000921.9277@mp.cs.niu.edu> rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:
>
>  When the address works correctly on locally originating mail, but fails on
>mail from elsewhere, always look to see if the sendmail daemon has been killed
>and restarted since modifying 'sendmail.cf'.  Otherwise the daemon may still
>be using the old configuration.  There is no way to persuade the daemon to
>re-read its configuration dynamically.  You have to kill and restart.
 .....

Yes that pretty sums up what I had forgotten to do as several people pointed
out to me.  When I got the first reply to my question I wanted to beat my
head against the wall...

Thank you very much to the folks who responded!


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Antonio Querubin  
tony@mpg.phys.hawaii.edu / ah6bw@uhm.ampr.org / querubin@uhunix.bitnet