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Why do I get excessive recursion errors when trying to send mail to my alias account?

Sep 18, 2023 | Email Services - Sendmail (Linux)

The usual cause of this is that you have an alias that is being looped back to itself.  Let’s explain.

Examples :

  • `/etc/mail/virtusertable:`

sales@johndoe.com -> Sales@johndoe.com

Sendmail is not case-sensitive so it sees these as the same alias

  • `/etc/mail/virtusertable`

sales@johndoe.com -> sales

when sales is an actual e-mail address in `/etc/passwd`

AIT’s Linux environment views the alias files after checking the passwd file so each time a request is sent to a user in the passwd file another request is then sent to the alias file (virtusertable) and thus the loop begins.