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From: fen@comedia.com (Fen Labalme)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: NetBSD-1.0, sendmail v8.6.9 & newaliases
Date: 15 Feb 1995 16:57:53 GMT
Organization: Broadcatch Technologies
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Message-ID: <fen-1502950858360001@lust.comedia.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: lust.comedia.com

I've recently upgraded to NetBSD-1.0 which comes with sendmail v8.6.9
and I'm noticing in my /var/log/maillog file that every time sendmail
is invoked to collect or send a message, the aliases file is being
read and updated.

Is this a bug or a feature?

-- 
Fen
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