First, you probably already have a "nobody:" alias in your /etc/aliases
file. Make sure you do not duplicate an alias by just adding a new one
for "nobody: /dev/null".
Second, The last line just means that you should not use the comma in
the owner-blah-outgoing alias.
owner-a85226440: myalias,
The comma at the end tells sendmail not to resolve the RHS any further.
Normally, sendmail would continue by looking for myalias in the aliases
and/or password file until a real user was found. Comma prevents that.
Dan Liston
Stephen Ronan wrote:
>
> Thanks, Dan, it sounds to me as if inserting ,nobody before the final quote
> mark in that aliases line will probably solve the problem. I have a question
> about how to implement that, though. The extract below from the majordomo
> FAQ suggests that I would need to add an additional line in the aliases file
> for nobody. Is that really necessary? If so, would it just look like this?
> nobody: /dev/null
>
> Here's what it says in the FAQ. (I'm not sure I understand the final
> sentence, but perhaps it's not relevant to my circumstance."
>
> "Unfortunately, Sendmail 8.x will log your -outgoing alias in the
> "Received:" lines. To prevent this you need to specify more than one address
> for the list name argument to resend. (for example
> "mylist:|"/usr/local/lib/majordomo/wrapper resend -h foo.org -l mylist
> mylist-seekrit,nobody"" where nobody is an alias for /dev/null) For Sendmail
> 8.x you must not define an alias 'owner-mylist-seekrit' to be something like
> 'owner-mylist,' (with the comma). "
>
> - Steve Ronan
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dan Liston" <dliston@netscape.com>
> To: "Stephen Ronan" <sronan@ctcnet.org>
> Cc: "Majordomo Users" <majordomo-users@GreatCircle.COM>
> Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 11:22 AM
> Subject: Re: question about Majordomo
>
> > Now that I can see your actual alias lines, there is a way to prevent your
> > outgoing address from being advertized in the email headers. In your ctc:
> > alias, just add ,nobody between the 0 and the ". Also, if you remove the
> > -R from that alias, more routing information will be preserved in the
> > headers for you to troubleshoot more easily. The -h is ok in the aliases
> > file, but you might as well remove that too, if you are using the
> > resend_host = ctcnetx.org
> > in your ctc.config file.
> >
> > One last word of advice, since this outgoing address has not been hidden,
> > you may want to consider changing it (unless there is something else at
> > the MTA level preventing writing to that address directly). I would assume
> > that if you write to a85226440@ctcnetx.org, you would bypass your resend
> > commands in majordomo, and deliver directly to all your subscribers.
> >
> > I'm sure virtmaps is the same thing as virtusertable. Keep in mind, that
> > in unix there is always more than one "right way" to do something. My
> > suggestion is just one way that has worked for me. People that use
> > linuxconf will find it does virtual hosting and virtual list quite a bit
> > differently than my suggestion too.
> >
> > Dan Liston
> >
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