Re: Are Sendmail-style Alias Lists Possible in exim4?

[Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu>]

"Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." writes:
> Read the relevant manpages:
> man 5 etc-aliases
> man 8 newaliases
> 
> In short, the /etc/aliases file is much more limited in exim, although
> Debian's exim does use it by default.  Newaliases is only there for
> compatibility and is a no-op; exim does not "compile" the aliases file--it
> parses it for each mail.

	Many thanks. I read the man pages yet a second time and
tried once again, and it worked correctly this time. I must have
done something bone-head the last time like had the wrong path
for the alias list or maybe misspelled the alias name which is
likely as the error I was getting was a "no such user" type
error. This time, exim4 -bt [ALIASNAME] expanded as expected.
Sorry for the bother and many thanks.

Martin McCormick WB5AGZ  Stillwater, OK 
Systems Engineer
OSU Information Technology Department Telecommunications Services Group