From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) Description of problem: sendmail is ignoring aliases. both in /etc/aliases and in ~/.forward e.g. > echo "root: bob.uk" >> /etc/aliases > newaliases > sendmail -v root . . >>> RCPT To:<root.uk> . . - mail attempts to be sent to root.uk instead of bob.uk" a check of the alias with sendmail -bv root works as expected - > sendmail -bv root bob.uk... deliverable: mailer smtp, host removedforsecurity.bbsrc.ac.uk, user bob.uk if the same is done on a RH9 machine > sendmail -v root says root... aliased to bob.uk and it works also, if I touch /etc/aliases then run sendmail -v root it does NOT complain that the aliases.db is out of date like redhat 9 does. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): sendmail-8.13.4-2.src.rpm How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.> echo "root: bob.uk" >> /etc/aliases 2 > newaliases 3 > sendmail -v root Actual Results: mail goes to root@bbsrc Expected Results: should go to bob@bbsrc Additional info:
The mail gets delivered to the configured user, but the message is that ist is getting to root, which is ok. The delivering to the aliased user is done in the background. Closing as "NOT A BUG".