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From: pcolmer@acorn.co.uk (Philip Colmer)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Included aliases in sendmail
Keywords: sendmail, aliases
Message-ID: <719@acorn.co.uk>
Date: 22 Feb 89 09:56:15 GMT
Organization: Acorn Computers Limited, Cambridge, UK
Lines: 18

I am running sendmail under BSD 4.3 and trying to use the
"include" alias facility. In case this isn't clear, this
is where you can have a file of mail names and the alias
file contains a entry of the form:

filealias: ":include:/usr/users/pcolmer/file"

and sending mail to "filealias" should result in mail being
sent to all the names in the specified file.

Whenever I try this, however, the mail system complains that
":include:/usr/users/pcolmer/file" is not a known user.

How can I get this very useful facility to work?

Philip Colmer
Acorn Computers Ltd
(pcolmer@acorn.co.uk)