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From: steve@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Steve DeJarnett)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: Included aliases in sendmail
Keywords: sendmail, aliases
Message-ID: <8465@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 23 Feb 89 18:42:14 GMT
References: <719@acorn.co.uk>
Reply-To: steve@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Steve DeJarnett)
Organization: Lab Rat Rumpus Room -- Cal Poly SLO
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In article <719@acorn.co.uk> pcolmer@acorn.co.uk (Philip Colmer) writes:
>I am running sendmail under BSD 4.3 and trying to use the
>"include" alias facility.
>
>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.

	In our alias file, we have lines of the following form:

filealias::include:/usr/local/lib/aliases/staff

	Try doing it without the quotes, and it should work (at least, that's
my guess as to the problem.

	Steve