Use /etc/aliases to send to a mailing-list using sendmail

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Published on 2011-12-22T10:52:21Z Indexed on 2012/09/12 15:40 UTC
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I'm trying to configure my Debian (6.0) server to forward emails sent to root to a mailing-list. I set the ML address in /etc/aliases this way:

root: [email protected]

I then called newaliases.

It doesn't work but when I call mail from the command line it works :/

echo "test" | mail -s"test message" [email protected]

If I set my own email address in /etc/aliases it's working too.

Any idea where it could come from ?

Thanks

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