FreeBSD 5.2 & sendmail - root alias aliases not working

[Matt Weatherford]

Hi, Im trying to hand off all the cron mail (to root) on my freebsd 5.2 server 
to another user or 2 using the aliases file and sendmail.

The problem is that sendmail does not seem to be looking at my aliases file at all.

Here is my setup:

ali# grep send /etc/rc.conf
sendmail_enable="NO"
sendmail_submit_enable="YES"
sendmail_msp_queue_enable="YES"
ali#
The only thing I changed from the default freebsd.mc file in /etc/mail
was to uncomment/add the line:
dnl Dialup users should uncomment and define this appropriately
define(`SMART_HOST', `smtp.washington.edu')
to hand off email to the campus-wide delivery system

in /etc/aliases I have:

# Pretty much everything else in this file points to "root", so
# you would do well in either reading root's mailbox or forwarding
# root's email from here.
root:   mbw, ncosgray

Which I would assume will fwd mail to root to those 2 users...

But when I run a test:

ali# /usr/sbin/sendmail -v root < /dev/null
LOG: MAIN
  <= [EMAIL PROTECTED] U=root P=local S=310
ali# Connecting to smtp.washington.edu [140.142.33.9]:25 ... connected
  SMTP<< 220 smtp.washington.edu ESMTP Sendmail 
8.12.11+UW04.02/8.12.11+UW04.02; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 16:11:30 -0800
  SMTP>> EHLO ali.csde.washington.edu
  SMTP<< 250-smtp.washington.edu Hello ali.csde.washington.edu, pleased to meet you
         250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
         250-PIPELINING
         250-EXPN
         250-VERB
         250-8BITMIME
         250-SIZE 60000000
         250-ETRN
         250-AUTH GSSAPI
         250-STARTTLS
         250-DELIVERBY
         250 HELP
  SMTP>> STARTTLS
  SMTP<< 220 2.0.0 Ready to start TLS
  SMTP>> EHLO ali.csde.washington.edu
  SMTP<< 250-smtp.washington.edu Hello ali.csde.washington.edu, pleased to meet you
         250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
         250-PIPELINING
         250-EXPN
         250-VERB
         250-8BITMIME
         250-SIZE 60000000
         250-ETRN
         250-AUTH GSSAPI PLAIN LOGIN
         250-DELIVERBY
         250 HELP
  SMTP>> MAIL FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SIZE=1341
  SMTP>> RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
  SMTP>> DATA
  SMTP<< 250 2.1.0 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Sender ok
  SMTP<< 250 2.1.5 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Recipient ok
  SMTP<< 354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
  SMTP>> writing message and terminating "."
  SMTP<< 250 2.0.0 i1Q0BUWQ030526 Message accepted for delivery
  SMTP>> QUIT
LOG: MAIN
  => [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=smarthost T=remote_smtp H=smtp.washington.edu 
[140.142.33.9] X=TLSv1:EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA:168
LOG: MAIN
  Completed

ali#

It never changes the "root" to "mbw" or "ncosgray"

Can anyone explain this and/or help me to fix it?

thanks,

Matt

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