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

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On Fri, 2002-08-02 at 13:06, Sam Hart wrote:
> On 2 Aug 2002, Dan Winship wrote:
>
> > > 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.
> >
> > Yes, evolution does not read your /etc/aliases, just like it doesn't
> > read your inetd.conf or XF86config. I'm not sure what you're expecting
> > it to do...?
>
> It's the first Unix mailer I've encountered that doesn't support 
> /etc/aliases. The aliases file is a standard file used by things like 
> sendmail and the like.

I think you're confused. No Unix mailer I know of uses it, only sendmail
uses it.

Jeff

[snip]
> Under evo it just chokes saying that the address is invalid.

that's because it is invalid. Please see rfc822 for further details.

> > If you just need to be able to send mail to aliases defined there, then
> > configure your account to use sendmail rather than SMTP to send mail,
> > and it will just work.
>
> It is configured to use sendmail.

danw was thinking of the 1.1 series where we made it not validate the
addresses before sending and instead let users shoot themselves in the
foot. Now if an address is invalid and you get an error code "52" (or
whatever" from your sendmail, it's your problem to figure out what it
means.

> > If you want to make the composer autocomplete addresses out of
> > /etc/aliases, then no, there's no way to make it do that currently. It
> > would be possible to write a backend that would do that though.
>
> It doesn't have to autocomplete addresses as long as it still lets you 
> send mail without having a complete address.

Sure, and it does this in the development versions.

Jeff

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Jeffrey Stedfast
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