barmar@think.COM (Barry Margolin) (06/24/89)
Does anyone have a routine that will check a mail aliases file (as
used by sendmail), looking for common syntax errors? In particular,
people here often forget to put a comma after a name when adding to
the end of a line, i.e. if the mailing list originally looked like
my-list: frank, ernie,
/archives/my-list
when bert adds himself he might write
my-list: frank, ernie, bert
/archives/my-list
which gets parsed by sendmail as the address "bert /archives/my-list".
If you've got something that will detect these missing commas, we'd
really appreciate it.
Barry Margolin
Thinking Machines Corp.
barmar@think.com
{uunet,harvard}!think!barmar