On Wed, 28 Mar 2001 13:59:21 MST, Ben Parker <[log in to unmask]>  said:

> relationship to sendmail for existing lists.  If you use the ADMIN
> web interface to create a brand new list, then yes you must create
> the necessary list address aliases in /etc/aliases (there are 8) and
> then you do need to restart sendmail as part of that process.

No, you need to run 'newaliases' or 'sendmail -bi' - the running sendmail
process does *NOT* need to be restarted.  In fact, I see a bug fix
listed for Sendmail 8.6 back in 1993 having to do with making the
running sendmail properly wait for a 'newaliases' to finish running
before looking up an alias.  I think even Sendmail 5.6x from the early
80's didn't require restarting sendmail when aliases were changed.


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                                Valdis Kletnieks
                                Operating Systems Analyst
                                Virginia Tech