From news Sun Jun 11 21:15:52 91 
From: matthews@lewhoosh.umd.edu (Mike Matthews)
Subject: sendmail :include: directive

Anybody know if the sendmail :include: directive works in NeXTstep 2.1?  Or,
if not, anybody know how to fix this, by, say, getting source from somewhere
else?  The problem is probably a NetInfo conflict, so that may not work very
well.

I am reluctant to try it myself and kill mail for the time being on my machine.
------
Mike Matthews, matthews@lewhoosh.umd.edu (NeXT)/matthews@umdd (bitnet)
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Those who can, do.  Those who can't, simulate.


From news Sun Jun 12 00:12:34 91 
From: grd@cmn9 (glen diener)
Subject: Re: sendmail :include: directive

In article <8710@umd5.umd.edu> matthews@lewhoosh.umd.edu (Mike Matthews)  
> Anybody know if the sendmail :include: directive works in NeXTstep 2.1?  Or,
> if not, anybody know how to fix this, by, say, getting source from somewhere
> else?  The problem is probably a NetInfo conflict, so that may not work very
> well.
> 
> I am reluctant to try it myself and kill mail for the time being on my  
machine.
> ------
> Mike Matthews, matthews@lewhoosh.umd.edu (NeXT)/matthews@umdd (bitnet)
> ------
> Those who can, do.  Those who can't, simulate.

Works just fine.  In some previous release, however, I found I
had to add an extra member, (generally "nobody"), to the
netinfo entry after the  :include:/filepath.  Unfortunately, can't
remember why...as I recall, the last member of the mailing
list was getting dropped without this.  I have found, however,
that under 2.0, if an address in the mailing list include file
is stale, sendmail will die at that point, and refuses to
distribute the mail to the rest of the recipients in the list.
Anyone else have this problem?  

-glen
grd@ccrma.stanford.edu


From news Sun Jun 12 17:01:16 91 
From: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid)
Subject: Re: sendmail :include: directive

Mike Matthews writes
> Anybody know if the sendmail :include: directive works in NeXTstep 2.1?  Or,
> if not, anybody know how to fix this, by, say, getting source from somewhere
> else? 

It works fine.  Here's an excerpt from my /etc/sendmail/aliases file:

TouchType_Users: :include:/home/glenn/.touchtypeusers


From news Sun Jun 27 09:29:12 91 
From: evenson@jabberwock.milton.u.washington.edu (Mark Evenson)
Subject: Re: sendmail :include: directive


My use of aliases (in /usr/lib/aliases) seems to have broken under 2.0--it
worked fine for a couple days, and now when the newalias comman builds, it
doesn't change the NetInfo database at all.  Any ideas?  Common experiences
so we can figure out what is going on?

		evenson@hitl.vrnet.washington.edu