[comp.mail.elm] How

vdra_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Valerie Drake) (02/08/91)

The subject says it all.  I can get into the alias section just
fine.  I can define an alias using the "Convert current message
to alias" function (A), I can list the aliases I have.  But that
seems to be the end of it.

I thought you could use these aliases as short names in the TO: section
of an email message, however the darn thing never expands them to the full
address.  Am I doing something wrong or am I just dense?

When the system asks me for an alias I type a short (3 char) identifier, 
it then adds the full name from the letter header and the full address
from the letter header.  I can list them and they look like this:

FULL NAME (SHORT) = NAME@LOC.LOC.NET

But when I use the (P)erson function it can't find FULL NAME, SHORT or
NAME@LOC.LOC.NET.  Do I have to precede the alias with a special character
or type one after entering it?

Thanks in advance for help,


Lee Drake

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