On Tue, 19 Jul 2011, ik wrote:

2011/7/19 Hetz Ben Hamo <het...@gmail.com>

Hi,

I have a weird issue with /etc/aliases
I've setup the root to send emails to my email (h...@benhamo.org) and ran
the newaliases command to rebuild the aliases db file.
I've restarted sendmail.

And yet, sendmail simply ignores this alias and tries to send emails to
r...@benhamo.org (which of course doesn't exists).

Any suggestions?


Yes, DON'T work with sendmail

<rant>
I really *hate* these sorts of non-answers. They don't help at all with the immediate problem and only really serve to annoy the person asking the question. Yes, I realise that in this case the questioner ended up taking this person's advice, but there may well have been plenty of cases where they might not have been able to. Questions like this don't usually outline the rationale for why they are using the software/hardware/whatever they're asking about, and neither should they have to.

If I ask about a problem I'm having with my cat, the last thing I want to hear from someone is that I should have a dog instead. The fact is that I have a cat. There may be good reasons for recommending a dog instead, and I can see why it might be relevent to mention this when answering, but to just say "get a dog" is not at all helpful.

And if you *must* say "get a dog", at least say why.
</rant>

Geoff.


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