On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 01:18 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > Poohba wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 20:19 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote: > >> At 5:12 PM -0400 5/31/07, Poohba wrote: > >>> I added aliases to /etc/mail/aliases in the form of username : > >>> alias1,alias2,alias3. I then did 'newaliases' and then i restarted > >>> sendmail. What else should I be doing? > >> Look at /var/log/maillog and see what happens to mail to that user and sent > >> to the aliases. If there isn't any, send some with the mail command: > >> > >> mail -s test username > >> some text. > >> Ctrl-D > >> RETURN > >> -- > >> ____________________________________________________________________ > >> TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/> > >> > > stat=User Unknown > > > > Was the username an actual user on the machine or one in your alias file? > > Also, when you ran the newaliases command did you see an error message > or just the number of aliases processed? > > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx > The username is the actual user. There were no errors with newaliases. /etc/aliases: 81 aliases, longest 10 bytes, 830 bytes total
