random troll <RussellBell@gmail.com> wrote:

> 'grep you custom-sendmail.cf for word alias and post the results'
>
> 171:# wait for alias file rebuild (default units: minutes)
> 172:O AliasWait=10
> 174:# location of alias file
> 175:O AliasFile=/home/rbell/sendmail/aliases
> 249:# send to me too, even in an alias expansion?
> 252:# verify RHS in newaliases?
> 253:O CheckAliases=False
> 501:# Maximum depth of alias recursion
> 502:#O MaxAliasRecursion=10
> 715:# local host aliases and pseudo-domains are always canonical
> 847:### Ruleset 5 -- special rewriting after aliases have been
> expanded ###
> 860:# deal with plussed users so aliases work nicely
> 1521:# define(`ALIAS_FILE', `/home/rbell/sendmail/aliases')
>
> aliases and aliases.db are in /home/rbell/sendmail
>
> Most of my messages to addressees other than myself rely on this alias
> file for expansion. Messages addressed to myself that stay in the
> queue
> forever, complaining of an unavailable alias database, have an X-
> authentication-warning
> that they use my custom sendmail.cf, so sendmail should look for this
> same
> alias database as all my other messages.

Next test:
praliases -C _your_custom_sendmail_cf

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