>gus# /usr/sbin/sendmail -bi -oA/etc/genericstable 
>/etc/genericstable: 3 aliases, longest 21 bytes, 78 bytes total

the genericstable should be rebuilt using makemap, not sendmail -bi.
sendmail -bi (aka newaliases) puts a @:@ entry in the database that
you certainly don't need, and probably don't want.

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