/etc/mail/aliases

[Nisar Ahmad]

Hi There

I have changed the Local aliases in the above file. What is the best way to test that if it send mails to the nominated persons ?

Thanks

Nisar

[Niel Greeff_1 · Accepted solution]

First you must remember to run the "newaliases" command.

Then to test:

run the "mail" command with the alias set up.

Example:

you set up an alias called test

mail test
hello
^D (this is a Control D)

This should send it to the alias on the box

[Michael Tully]

Hi,

Once you have updated the aliases file, you must run 'newaliases' or 'sendmail -bi'

You can easily do a test, I have a sysadmin account on our internal mail called sysadmin which one address goes to fred@mydomain.com

e.g

cat /etc/hosts | elm -s "my hosts file" sysadmin

This will send to all of the people who are included as a sysadmin in the alias.

Cheers
~Michael~

[MANOJ SRIVASTAVA]

Hi Nisar


run newaliases .

mailx test < /etc/passwd


this will send mail to all the users defined in test.


Manoj Srivastava

[Nisar Ahmad]

Thanks a lot every body

Nisar