eleight@cayman.amd.com (Elizabeth Leight) (05/24/91)
I'm not sure whether this is an elm problem, or a sendmail configuration problem, but here goes. We have some aliases set up, in /etc/aliases, that look like: everitt: Dave Everitt <everitt@pedigree> grahms: Graham Stewart <grahms@pedigree> Where everitt also has a local userid, but grahms does not. If, in elm, you send mail to everitt, who has a local userid, then the alias is expanded to show "Dave Everitt". However, if you send mail to grahms, who does not have a local userid, then the alias is not expanded. The problem is that we'd like to have the alias expanded, so that users know they're sending to the right person (we have a few with similiar aliases). We're using ELM 2.3 PL11 Any help would be greatly appreciated. Elizabeth Leight elizabeth.leight@amd.com
itkin@mrspoc.Transact.COM (Steven M. List) (05/27/91)
eleight@cayman.amd.com (Elizabeth Leight) writes: >I'm not sure whether this is an elm problem, or a sendmail configuration >problem, but here goes. > >We have some aliases set up, in /etc/aliases, that look like: > > everitt: Dave Everitt <everitt@pedigree> > grahms: Graham Stewart <grahms@pedigree> > > Where everitt also has a local userid, but grahms does not. > >If, in elm, you send mail to everitt, who has a local userid, then >the alias is expanded to show "Dave Everitt". However, if you send >mail to grahms, who does not have a local userid, then the alias >is not expanded. The problem is that we'd like to have the alias >expanded, so that users know they're sending to the right person (we >have a few with similiar aliases). The reason that Mr. Everitt's name gets included is that it is picked up from the password (/etc/passwd) file. Since Mr. Stewart does not have a local login, his name is not expanded. There are a couple of ways to do this, but the simplest is to create a system-wide alias file (check you Elm configuration for the location) that includes the aliases that you want expanded for all users of the local system, and then compile with "newalias -g". -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ : Steven List @ Transact Software, Inc. :^>~ : : Chairman, Unify User Group of Northern California : : itkin@Transact.COM :