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Many Thanks to those who replied and tried to help me with my problem.
My Original question was:
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I am having a problem when trying to send mail from a SUBSIDIARY machine
to more than one local user.
I have a mailhost machine that is a Sparc 2 running SunOs4.1.3.
My subsidiary machine is also A Sparc 2 running SunOs4.1.3.
When I try to send mail to more than two users locally I get this message:
550 test-2... User unknown
550 ltd-eng... User unknown
550 Postmaster... User unknown
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Date: Tue, 26 Oct 93 17:51:58 IST
From: hagit (Hagit Tamir)
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To: ltd-eng, test-2
Subject: test mail
The alias test-2 is this alias:
test-2: user1,user2
The two users are the following:
user1: user1@mailhost
user2: user2@mailhost
The alias ltd-eng is a list of local users (twelve users).
When I try to send to test-2@mailhost or ltd-eng@mailhost. I dont get any
error message.
Although I get an error message the mail is SENT. But this error message
is really annoying.
I will appreciate any help.
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I also forgot to mention the fact that the aliases were a NIS database
aliases.
I got some answers to the problem, I tried all of them but I could not
solve the problem, I still got this annoying error messages.
The answers I got were:
* Rebuild the aliases database with newaliases.
* Remove /etc/sendmail.fc and restart the sendmail daemon.
* Not to use NIS aliases but share /etc/aliases between the computers
in another way.
* Start sendmail AFTER starting ldconfig in /etc/rc.local.
Finnaly I decided not to try to solve the problem but to work around
it. I took the advise of John Halleck (NAHAJ@CC.UTAH.EDU) and added
a rule that simply add the mailhost name to every local user.
I also changed the mailer that is define to handle the local mail,
from /bin/mail to /usr/ucb/mail.
The changes in /etc/sendmail.cf are:
# (hagit) - changed the mailer to be /usr/ucb/mail
#Mlocal, P=/bin/mail, F=rlsDFMmnP, S=10, R=20, A=mail -d $u
Mlocal, P=/usr/ucb/mail, F=rlsDFMmnP, S=10, R=20, A=mail -d $u
S10
# None needed.
# (hagit) - added a rule to add @mailhost
R$+ $@$1@mailhost
Thanks to:
Heas <heas@chpc.org>
Christopher Davis <ckd@kei.com>
vasey@issi.com
Christopher Davis <ckd@kei.com>
John Halleck <NAHAJ@CC.UTAH.EDU>
Thank You
hagit@chipcom.com
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