Re: [Evolution] Evolution not recognizing /etc/aliases file

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On Fri, 2002-08-02 at 12:38, Sam Hart wrote:
> (Forgive me if this questions been asked before. I'm new to this list, and 
> there's nothing in the KB I kind find to answer this ;-)
>
> Evolution version 1.0.3 (came with RH 7.2, I think) does not seem to 
> ackowledge the sendmail /etc/aliases file. I have access to 1.0.5 at my 
> house, but I have not verified if the problem exists there as well.
>
> Is there a configuration option somewhere to make Evolution recognize this 
> file, or is this just a bug? /etc/aliases support really is a must for 
> organizations that use it (like us).

Evolution does not and never will access /etc/aliases. This is not for
Evolution to do, this is strictly a configuration file for sendmail.

This is not a bug, no mail client in the world accesses /etc/aliases,
nor should they.

Jeff

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