I agree that this is not a qpopper question but because I had a not dissimilar
problem with qpopper maybe a reply is justified. I think that when compiling
your local delivery agent, perhaps procmail, you had conflicts in definitions
and the NIS stuff was dropped. Since you mention no problem with non-aliased
users,as a story this only hangs together if you did not have your users in the
NIS system.
Jim
On May 17, 1:23pm, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> Subject: Re: can't get NIS mail aliases to work
> Steve,
>
> On Thu, 17 May 2001, Steven J. Backus wrote:
>
> > rick pim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > mail aliases are not a qpopper issue; they're an MTA issue:
> > > sendmail or postfix or whatever it is you use.
> >
> > When I mail using a local mailer (elm, pine) it recognizes the
> > aliases just fine. When a remote user mails to an alias, the "user
> > unknown" error appears. When I put the /etc/mail/aliases file
> > back, everything worked normally. I'm not disagreeing with you,
> > but perhaps someone knows what's wrong? My /etc/nsswitch.conf has
> > nis in the aliases field and as far as I know everything is
> > configured correctly.
>
> Like stated above: this is not a qpopper issue. Consider explaining your
> situation to a mailing list that is related to your MTA. Anyways, I can
> only guess from your details; maybe your local mail client is using a
> sendmail (or other) that uses one aliases file and your mail server (for
> remote mails coming in) is using another. Don't continue this discussion
> here on this list -- maybe discuss this on the list for your operating
> system.
>
> Jeremy C. Reed
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