cluther@supernet.haus.com (Clay Luther) (10/10/90)
I have discovered that the newaliases/mkaliases scripts that come with smail 3.x sort the aliases file incorrectly when creating the aliases.sort file for use by smail. The sort places the substring "a-a" before "a", eg: foo-bar:myfoobar foo:myfoo However, smail's binary search expects the order to be reversed. If the user's aliases.sort file is in this pattern, then the command: smail -bv -v foo will generate a "unknown user" error. smail -bv -v foo-bar is found, though Editing the aliases.sort file to reflect foo:myfoo foo-bar:myfoobar fixes the problem. -- Clay Luther, Postmaster cluther@supernet.haus.com postmaster@supernet.haus.com clay.luther@supernet.haus.com Harris Adacom Corporation MS 23, PO Box 809022, Dallas, Tx 75380-9022 214/386-2356 Your mileage may vary. Void where prohibited.