Bug 51315

Summary:	Sendmail fails to read files defined in /etc/aliases
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Yoda <gbj>
Component:	sendmail	Assignee:	Florian La Roche <laroche>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Yoda 2001-08-09 13:09:43 UTC

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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.18 i686)

Description of problem:
Defining a mailing list to be read from a file in /etc/aliases fails.
Sendmail treats it as a email address not as a list.

mailinglist::include:/usr/local/etc/mailingList

This is only a problem in RH7.1.  RH7.0 works OK

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. enter alias in /etc/aliases 
mailinglist:include:/usr/local/etc/mailinglist
2. run newaliases  (no errors reported)
3. sendmail -bv mailinglist 
	

Actual Results:  :include:/usr/local/etc/localadmin.txt... User unknown

Expected Results:  mailinglist.au... deliverable: mailer
esmtp, host freddofrog.com.au., user freddofrog.au

Additional info:

Comment 1 Florian La Roche 2001-08-23 07:30:16 UTC

Works for me with:
mailinglist: :include: /etc/mailinglist

Florian La Roche

Comment 2 Yoda 2001-08-24 11:04:00 UTC

Not sure now we downgraded to the RH7.0 one.
However the sendmail man page says"
poets: ":include:/usr/local/lib/poets.list"
Maybe the quotes are the problem?