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Re: duplicate aliases keys



On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 01:26:15PM +0100, Roar Thronęs wrote:

> I have noticed a problem in 2.99.52-pre3
> 
> If the aliases file contain two lines
> 
> one: two
> one: two
> 
> then everything below the second one do not seem to get into the database
> when using newaliases. (Using btree database)
> 
> Is it supposed to be like that, and if it is, is it possible to get newdb
> to issue a warning and cancel the new db?

This isn't the only incompatibility with sendmail's format of the aliases
db.  zmailer requires quoting some things where sendmail doesn't and doesn't
do sendmail like continuation lines (lines starting with a tab character)
which at time results in a horribly unreadable zmailer aliases file.

  Ralf