Perhaps I should have included this error message:
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Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 11:22:30 -0800 (PST)
From: givant (Steven Givant)
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To: marshall, lcl
Subject: strange messages
I get the following kind of message when I send a message to
mcsgrp:
:include:/usr/local/lib/custom/aliases/mcsgrp... Cannot open
/usr/local/lib/cu
stom/aliases/mcsgrp: No such file or directory
Steve
=== Thanks ,
Samuel
On Tue, 22 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 22, 1998 at 12:37:55PM -0800, Samuel Dries-Daffner wrote:
> >
> > OK...now I have the tcpserver part working which has solved most of the
> > problems...especially that of not receiving outside mail... :) Thanks for
> > all the responses.
> >
> > Pine seems to look for the aliases in the correct place...but some users
> > insist on using BSD mail...this (at present) does not seem to look for
> > the aliases in /var/qmail/aliases. :(
> >
> > How should I resolve this ?
>
> This shouldn't be an issue. Your MUAs don't need to resolve aliases.
> That work should be done by the MTA once the MUA injects the message
> into the queue.
>
> Eg.
> ~alias/.qmail-someyoungguy
> contains
> &[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> if mail or mailx sends the message to [EMAIL PROTECTED],
> the forwarding to [EMAIL PROTECTED] is going to be handled by qmail.
>
> --
> John White
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> PGP Public Key: http://www.triceratops.com/john/public-key.pgp
>
