I thought it would loop too, but when I tested it, it didn't. All of the aliases are on a different machine. It's sending the emails to their Sprint PCS phones. 8165551212@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and 8165551212@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (note it's not the real number in the email address, but the same domain.) As for a vacation script, there wouldn't be one. It's just what php/formmail script sends via email to emergency@xxxxxxxxxx when one of their clients enters an emergency ticket via their web site. A php form that they fill their name, phone, and IP address, and it sends it to emergency@xxxxxxxxxx, but since they wont be having anyone at the office or monitoring email from 11pm to 5am any more, they needed a way to be notified if one of their clients needs them in the middle of the night. So the guy went to Radio Shack, bought 6 Sprint PCS phone and they already had the pager, all of which have an email address for text messaging. But I do see what your saying. I added other aliases which didn't have a local account by the same name, and it worked fine. But when I made an alias as the same name as a local account, it wasn't being sent to the alias name. So after playing for a while, I ended up trying the newaliases command, which did send the aliases the message, but not the local account. So I played around and did a "what if" with the emergency account at the end, and then the aliases and the local account was getting the emails. I'm going to try the procmail script that was mentioned earlier at a later date, or when the alias screws up. -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tom 'Needs A Hat' Mitchell Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 4:15 PM To: For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Re: Sendmail / Email copy - Fixed Remember that you can escape expansion in aliases. If you look at it you had built a loop: emergency: them, us, emergency Think about how the loop expands, Compare with emergency: them, us, \emergency What if you had done this ;) emergency: them, us them: bob, carol, ted, emergency us: fred, jed, alice, emergency Could you detect it and find it to fix it. What if one of these involved aliases on a second machine? What if one user had a bad vacation script? ;-) The good news is that the newer sendmail is smart enough to not do bad things for the simple errors. At one time it would hurl big chunks. But garbage in is still garbage out....
