On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 02:39:37PM +0100, G?tz Reinicke - IT-Koordinator wrote:
how are mails forwarded, if I do have the same alias pointing to two different users like this (two entries, two lines):
bon.aqua: coke bon.aqua: pepsi
That will not work.
Will coke and pepsi get the mail adressed to bon.aqua or will only the first entry get the mail?
You'll get a warning message
$ grep testme /etc/aliases testme: user1 testme: user2 $ newaliases /etc/aliases: line 105: testme... Warning: duplicate alias name testme /etc/aliases: 80 aliases, longest 10 bytes, 812 bytes total
I think the second entry will get the mail; aliases are stored as db or dbm files, and so only have one value per key. Sendmail doesn't merge keys. (At least looking at the resulting DB file I only see "user2" in the file).
I know, that "bon.aqua: coke, pepsi" will forward the mails to coke and pepsi,
That is the correct format. Use it :-)