Using /etc/aliases with groups
Eucke
euckew at sierraelectronics.com
Sat Sep 4 01:37:05 UTC 2004
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Silberberg" <jsilberberg at mindspring.com>
To: "General Red Hat Linux discussion list" <redhat-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 6:04 PM
Subject: Re: Using /etc/aliases with groups
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> everyone: user1, user2, user3, .....................
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> At 07:23 PM 9/3/2004, you wrote:
> >I have been googling and I have not hit upon a keyword combination that
> >will shed light on this. I would like to create a Group for mass
emailing
> >users on a server. I have tried adding a line like
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> >everyone: users
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> >but the email ends up being rejected. This is a sendmail setup and, yes,
> >I did run newaliases after altering the /etc/aliases file. Anyone doing
> >this? Suggestions on how to implement? I intend to only make the group
> >alias live when we want to do the mass Email and will disable it once it
> >is sent to prevent unauthorized use.
Yeah...that one I can do...but it requires ongoing maintenance and
caretaking. I need this to route to a GROUP....
This is the error output when it fails:
----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
users
(reason: 550 5.1.1 User unknown)
(expanded from: <allemployees at testurl.com>)
----- Transcript of session follows -----
550 5.1.1 users... User unknown
Suggestions on where to look?
thanks!
-Eucke
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