error in newaliases

[Erik van der Meulen <e.van.der.meulen@avondel.nl>]

I cannot seem to get sendmail running on my laptop. If I run
sendmailconfig I get some errors. First thing that goes wrong seems to
be newaliases. If I run that manually i get:

  Cannot open hash database /etc/mail/aliases.db: Invalid argument
  WARNING: cannot open alias database /etc/mail/aliases
  Cannot create database for alias file /etc/mail/aliases

Does not seen to have to do with permissions as far as I can see.

Any hints much appreciated!

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  Erik van der Meulen <e.van.der.meulen@avondel.nl>