It is also possible that you have your MTA configued to disallow pointing aliases to files. I believe some MTAs can do that, as a security option. The details would depend, of course, on which MTA you are using.
PS -- Your system is sending that garbled "To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]" header again.
At 11:52 AM 1/6/03 -0500, Haines Brown wrote:
When I use /etc/aliases for single address, it works ok (as I'm now doing), but if there is a pointer to a file of addresses, it fails because of permisions.For example, in /etc/aliases, I have a pointer to test: :include:/home/brownh/aliases/test.aliases But when I use it (after upgrading to RH 8.0), I get: ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- :include:/home/brownh/aliases/test.aliases (expanded from: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) ----- Transcript of session follows ----- 550 5.2.4 :include:/home/brownh/aliases/test.aliases... Cannot open /home/brownh/aliases/test.aliases: Permission denied Bothe the aliases directory and the test.aliases file are rwxrwxrwx (wide open for test purposes).
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