On Thu, 7 May 1998, Peter Prohaska wrote: > > I'm trying to get smail to work with an include file for aliases. > > My line in my aliases is as follows: > > > > everybody::include:/etc/smail/blobs > ^^^^ > If I´m correct, there is one ":" too much.
Hmmm, with only one it complains it cannot open output file, which I don't want it to, do I? The file is definately world readable, should it be owned by mail maybe? > > |------------------------- Message log follows: -------------------------| > > no valid recipients were found for this message > > |------------------------- Failed addresses follow: ---------------------| > > :include:/etc/smail/blobs ... failed: unknown user > > That even tells you that the alias-driver didn´t resolv the include. Yep, I wonder why though, 'cause I followed everything in the man pages (I hope ;-) > Can´t remember where exactly you can read about it, but "apropos smail" > and the doc/smail folder should be enough. Cool, I found apropos! That's pretty cool! I wonder how many other useful programs I've got hiding on my system! Thanks for your help, but it still doesn't work :-( Tim. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]