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From: reeder@ut-emx.UUCP (William P. Reeder)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: aliases
Keywords: need explanation
Message-ID: <10662@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 21 Feb 89 17:36:42 GMT
Organization: University of Texas Computation Center
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I'm curious.  I just installed sendmail 5.61, and rewrote my
sendmail.cf file.  All of a sudden, my alias file broke with "cannot
alias non-local names".

I look in the code and discover that it passes the alias through
parseaddr(), which causes it to be rewritten by rulesets 3 and 0.
Why?  I just discovered that my new configuration file won't let
aliases have periods in them.  I guess it's back to square one.

-- Wills
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