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From: scottm@cscns.com (Scott McKinsey)
Subject: Does aliases work?
Message-ID: <C0zF9t.Jzv@cscns.com>
Summary: Aliases lookup doesn't work for me - I did newaliases too!
Keywords: aliases newaliases
Organization: Community_News_Service
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Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1993 05:01:04 GMT
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After creating /etc/aliases and running newaliases, trying to send mail
to that alias doesn't work.  It comes back with something like
'alias not found' or some such.  The alias.db was created.

Anybody got a clue?