FreeBSD 5.2 & sendmail - root alias aliases not working

[Matt Weatherford]

Hi, Im trying to hand off all the cron mail (to root) on my freebsd 5.2 server 
to another user or 2 using the aliases file and sendmail.

The problem is that sendmail does not seem to be looking at my aliases file at all.

Here is my setup:

ali# grep send /etc/rc.conf
sendmail_enable="NO"
sendmail_submit_enable="YES"
sendmail_msp_queue_enable="YES"
ali#

The only thing I changed from the default freebsd.mc file in /etc/mail
was to uncomment/add the line:

dnl Dialup users should uncomment and define this appropriately
define(`SMART_HOST', `smtp.washington.edu')

to hand off email to the campus-wide delivery system

in /etc/aliases I have:

# Pretty much everything else in this file points to "root", so
# you would do well in either reading root's mailbox or forwarding
# root's email from here.

root:   mbw, ncosgray

Which I would assume will fwd mail to root to those 2 users...


But when I run a test:

ali# /usr/sbin/sendmail -v root < /dev/null
LOG: MAIN
   <= root at u.washington.edu U=root P=local S=310
ali# Connecting to smtp.washington.edu [140.142.33.9]:25 ... connected
   SMTP<< 220 smtp.washington.edu ESMTP Sendmail 
8.12.11+UW04.02/8.12.11+UW04.02; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 16:11:30 -0800
   SMTP>> EHLO ali.csde.washington.edu
   SMTP<< 250-smtp.washington.edu Hello ali.csde.washington.edu, pleased to meet you
          250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
          250-PIPELINING
          250-EXPN
          250-VERB
          250-8BITMIME
          250-SIZE 60000000
          250-ETRN
          250-AUTH GSSAPI
          250-STARTTLS
          250-DELIVERBY
          250 HELP
   SMTP>> STARTTLS
   SMTP<< 220 2.0.0 Ready to start TLS
   SMTP>> EHLO ali.csde.washington.edu
   SMTP<< 250-smtp.washington.edu Hello ali.csde.washington.edu, pleased to meet you
          250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
          250-PIPELINING
          250-EXPN
          250-VERB
          250-8BITMIME
          250-SIZE 60000000
          250-ETRN
          250-AUTH GSSAPI PLAIN LOGIN
          250-DELIVERBY
          250 HELP
   SMTP>> MAIL FROM:<root at u.washington.edu> SIZE=1341
   SMTP>> RCPT TO:<root at u.washington.edu>
   SMTP>> DATA
   SMTP<< 250 2.1.0 <root at u.washington.edu>... Sender ok
   SMTP<< 250 2.1.5 <root at u.washington.edu>... Recipient ok
   SMTP<< 354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
   SMTP>> writing message and terminating "."
   SMTP<< 250 2.0.0 i1Q0BUWQ030526 Message accepted for delivery
   SMTP>> QUIT
LOG: MAIN
   => root at u.washington.edu R=smarthost T=remote_smtp H=smtp.washington.edu 
[140.142.33.9] X=TLSv1:EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA:168
LOG: MAIN
   Completed

ali#

It never changes the "root" to "mbw" or "ncosgray"

Can anyone explain this and/or help me to fix it?

thanks,

Matt