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  From: Glen Turner <glen.turner@aarnet.edu.au>
  To  : <Alex.Wilkinson@dsto.defence.gov.au>
  Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 16:48:32 +0930

Re: /etc/aliases question

Wilkinson,Alex wrote:

> Besides grep'ing through /etc/aliases and using 'sendmail -bv username' are there any other ways
> [commands] to find out mail aliases for particular users ?

The problem is that sendmail gives you heaps of ways
to munge a mail address -- /etc/aliases, /etc/mail/userdb,
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf, an LDAP directory, etc, etc.

So there's no generic way of getting from a user ID
to a e-mail address.

Most sysadmins will set up machines so that locally-generated
mail to userid@localhost will make its way to the user's
true mailbox (so they can see cron output).

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