email alias/group mgmt?

Yang Xiao yxiao2004 at gmail.com
Thu Aug 26 21:37:20 UTC 2004


On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 16:23:33 -0500, Les Mikesell <les at futuresource.com> wrote:
> This isn't specific to fedora but maybe there is some packaged
> solution so I'll ask anyway.  Is there a good way to handle a
> lot of local mail group addresses?  I've been keeping them
> in separate text files using :include:/path/to/file in sendmail's
> alias file.  This works great, allows nesting of groups and
> weeds out duplicates.  The catch is that when a user's login
> is deleted he must now be deleted from all of those separate
> files or the sender will get error messages.  Is there a handy
> way to keep things in sync or at least test all the expansions
> in /etc/alias without actually sending anything?
> 
> ---
>  Les Mikesell
>   les at futuresource.com
> 

sendmail -bv userid
will verify the address and expand aliases.

hope this helps
Yang





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