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Re: Alias problem

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chuck Mead)
Mon Nov 30 13:06:36 1998

Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 13:05:41 -0500 (EST)
From: Chuck Mead <chuck@moongroup.com>
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On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Jason Wong wrote:

> I'm setting up a new web host customer and I've created an entry in the
> /etc/aliases file for the new domain pointing to a user on the mail
> server however, when i go to type newaliases, i get an error on the new
> lines that i entered:
> /etc/aliases: line 58: newuser@newdomain.com... cannot alias non-local
> names
> What would be the cause of this and why does this happen every once in a
> while.
> TIA for all the help.

You need the virtusertable functionality for this!

See http://www.moongroup.com/unix/sendmail/virtual-hosting.html
If you install the 8.9.1 rpm's I pointed you to the feature is
already enabled in m4 and in your .cf file.

Cheers!
--                         
Chuck Mead, CEO - Moongroup Consulting, Inc. <chuck@moongroup.com>
http://www.moongroup.com/
http://www.moongroup.com/unix/

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been called by others the fiddle factor..."
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