Bug 23686

Summary:	/etc/aliases has parse error's, looses RHS addresses
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Robert M. Stockmann <stock>
Component:	sendmail	Assignee:	Florian La Roche <laroche>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.0	CC:	stock
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Description Robert M. Stockmann 2001-01-10 02:35:56 UTC

sendmail-8.11.0-8.i386.rpm uses /etc/aliases and /etc/aliases.db
to reroute email adresses. 

We noticed that sendmail doesn't parse /etc/aliases correctly , an example
:

G.W.Bush:	bush, grandpa

sometimes it workes ok, sometimes email sent to G.W.Bush only is
sent
to bush or only to grandpa. Sometimes even no email is 
sent to Mlocal. 

The behaviour , correct or faulty stays the same after /usr/bin/newaliases
is run.

Temporary solution :

remove the sendmail version included with redhat 7.0 :

rpm -e sendmail-8.11.0-8.i386.rpm \
	sendmail-cf-8.11.0-8.i386.rpm  sendmail-doc-8.11.0-8.i386.rpm

and use the sendmail rpm's from redhat 6.2 combined with 
compat-glibc-6.2-2.1.3.2.i386.rpm from redhat 7.0 :

rpm -Uhv compat-glibc-6.2-2.1.3.2.i386.rpm
compat-libstdc++-6.2-2.9.0.9.i386.rpm
rpm -Uhv sendmail-8.9.3-20.i386.rpm \
	sendmail-cf-8.9.3-20.i386.rpm sendmail-doc-8.9.3-20.i386.rpm

Comment 1 Henri Schlereth 2001-01-17 19:44:18 UTC

I thought /etc/aliases has the format:

localhost name:       localhost name, local@machine, local@FDQN

Anything else should be in things like generics or virtual-hosts.

Comment 2 Florian La Roche 2001-02-04 09:37:46 UTC

Yes, use names only on the LHS. Please also make sure you update
glibc to a newer errata version, so that everything runs smoothly.