Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!news.cs.indiana.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!midway!clout!chinet!les From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Re: Smail alias errors: good mail bouncing Message-ID: <1991Jun06.213601.25555@chinet.chi.il.us> Date: 6 Jun 91 21:36:01 GMT References: <1991Jun05.173758.25551@oneb.wimsey.bc.ca> Organization: Chinet - Chicago Public Access UNIX Lines: 27 In article <1991Jun05.173758.25551@oneb.wimsey.bc.ca> kmcvay@oneb.wimsey.bc.ca (Ken McVay) writes: >I've been running smail (version 3.?) on my XENIX box for about a year >without problems, but good mail has been bouncing lately, and I can't >determine why. >In the first case, mail aliased to 'ecuador' bounced, although 'ecuador' >was included in ~/aliases. The aliases file contained some unused aliases >which I had commented out using the pound sign (#), so I removed them >entirely and ran local tests - mail addressed to ecuador was dealt with >properly during the tests... If you are using "proto=bsearch" in the aliases entry in the directors file, the aliases file must be alphabetically sorted, and the #'s would screw it up unless you run mkaliases to generate the working copy. Those multi-line aliases would cause trouble with bsearch also. >I then discovered that mail to my userid has been bouncing, which would >seem to eliminate the aliases file as the culprit. Maybe it would be a good time to pick up the latest version and start over. You can get a pretty good idea about what smail is doing with something like "smail -v200 -N address...