steve@vlink01.UUCP (8780 Vlink) (08/29/90)
Could someone answer a simple question for me? I would like to make up "an alias" that would forward to several people as a "forwarding alias". For example: falias name = people people = john sue frank henry joe Mail would come into machine!people and would be forwarded to john, sue, frank, heny joe. I tried to put this into faliases but it would only forward to the first name. Any suggestions. Thanks. Please send email. -- V-Link Corporation | Steven E Frazier 1828 Darrow Drive |----------------------------- Powell, OH 43065-9261 | Local : steve (614)792-6363 | Remote: steve@vlink01.UUCP
dillon@netcom.UUCP (John Altinbay) (08/30/90)
In article <156@vlink01.UUCP> steve@vlink01.UUCP (8780 Vlink) writes: >Could someone answer a simple question for me? > >I would like to make up "an alias" that would forward to several >people as a "forwarding alias". > >For example: > falias name = people > people = john sue frank henry joe > >Mail would come into machine!people and would be forwarded to >john, sue, frank, heny joe. > >I tried to put this into faliases but it would only forward to the >first name. > >Any suggestions. > >Thanks. Please send email. > Thanks. Please post. He's not the only one that wants to know. John.>-- >V-Link Corporation | Steven E Frazier >1828 Darrow Drive |----------------------------- >Powell, OH 43065-9261 | Local : steve >(614)792-6363 | Remote: steve@vlink01.UUCP
steve@nshore.uucp (Stephen Walick) (08/30/90)
As quoted from <12855@netcom.UUCP> by dillon@netcom.UUCP (John Altinbay): +--------------- | In article <156@vlink01.UUCP> steve@vlink01.UUCP (8780 Vlink) writes: | | >I would like to make up "an alias" that would forward to several | >people as a "forwarding alias". | | Thanks. Please post. He's not the only one that wants to know. +--------------- I had originally replied via 'e-mail', but you've asked for a "follow- up" posting, so here's a copy of the message that I had e-mailed.... Since this is posted to < comp.mail.elm >, I presume you're using the 'Elm' mailer. All you would have to do is < man newalias > and bring up the following which is very easy. I would use the < newalias -g > form to make it a system alias. ----------------< begin 'man newaslias' >---------------- NEWALIAS(1L)USENET Community Trust (Elm Version 2.3) NEWALIAS(1L) NAME newalias - install new elm aliases for user and/or system SYNOPSIS newalias [-g] DESCRIPTION Newalias creates new hash and data files from a text file. If the program is invoked with the -g (global) flag, the program updates the system alias files. Otherwise, the program looks for a file called $HOME/.elm/aliases.text and, upon finding it, creates files $HOME/.elm/aliases.hash and $HOME/.elm/aliases.data for the elm program. The format that the program expects is; alias, alias, .. = comment = address or alias, alias, .. = comment = alias, alias, ... The first form is for an individual user such as; dave, taylor = Dave Taylor = veeger!hpcnou!dat and the second is for defining a group alias such as; gurus = Unix Gurus = alan, john, dave, mike, richard, larry, t_richardson Note that lines can be continued at will, blank lines are accepted without error, and that any line starting with '#' is considered a comment and is not processed. Aliases are case insensitive so dave and Dave are both the same alias. Finally, aliases can contain other aliases, and/or groups; unix = Unix people = gurus, taylor, jonboy FILES $HOME/.elm/aliases.text alias source for user $HOME/.elm/aliases.hash alias hash table for user $HOME/.elm/aliases.data alias data file for user /usr/local/lib/aliases.text alias source for system /usr/local/lib/aliases.hash alias hash table for system /usr/local/lib/aliases.data alias data file for system Page 1 (printed 5/31/90) NEWALIAS(1L)USENET Community Trust (Elm Version 2.3) NEWALIAS(1L) AUTHOR Dave Taylor, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories. SEE ALSO elm(1L), checkalias(1L), mail(1), mailx(1) DIAGNOSTICS Newalias has a couple of descriptive error messages which don't need to be detailed here. It is, however, worth noting that the checkalias program can be used to ensure that the aliases are in the proper order and are available for the elm system. BUG REPORTS TO Syd Weinstein elm@DSI.COM (dsinc!elm) COPYRIGHTS O Copyright 1986, 1987 by Dave Taylor O Copyright 1988, 1989, 1990 by The USENET Community Trust Page 2 (printed 5/31/90) ----------------< begin 'man newaslias' >---------------- Now, if you're talking about mail coming in from outside of your ma- chine, then you're talking about a < smail > alias or a < sendmail > alias file, neither of which are "faliases". Regards.... Steve Walick -- Stephen J. Walick, Asst Sysop of the < XBBS > program at NCoast.ORG uunet!ncoast!nshore!steve nshore!steve@ncoast.org
lemke@radius.com (Steve Lemke) (08/30/90)
>+--------------- >| In article <156@vlink01.UUCP> steve@vlink01.UUCP (8780 Vlink) writes: >| >| >I would like to make up "an alias" that would forward to several >| >people as a "forwarding alias". >| >| Thanks. Please post. He's not the only one that wants to know. >+--------------- In addition, if you're using sendmail, you can type "man aliases" to see how aliases work for sendmail. I use the sendmail aliases file to make addresses like "qajobs@radius.com" and "rds@radius.com" which can point to a real person here, but if the person should change, I can just change the alias file withouth having to change the general address. Here's the info in a nutshell: Aliases can be listed in the file: /etc/sendmail/aliases It is formatted as a series of lines of the form name: name_1, name2, name_3, . . . The name is the name to alias, and the name_n are the aliases for that name. Lines beginning with white space are continuation lines. Lines beginning with `#' are comments. ... This is only the raw data file; the actual aliasing informa- tion is placed into a binary format in the files /etc/sendmail/aliases.dir and /etc/sendmail/aliases.pag using the program newaliases(1). A newaliases command should be executed each time the aliases file is changed for the change to take effect. ... --Steve -- ----- Steve Lemke, Engineering Quality Assurance, Radius Inc., San Jose ----- ----- Reply to: lemke@radius.com (Note: NEW domain-style address!!) -----
elw@netxcom.DHL.COM (Edwin Wiles) (09/01/90)
In article <156@vlink01.UUCP> steve@vlink01.UUCP (8780 Vlink) writes: >Could someone answer a simple question for me? > >I would like to make up "an alias" that would forward to several >people as a "forwarding alias". > >For example: > falias name = people > people = john sue frank henry joe > >Mail would come into machine!people and would be forwarded to >john, sue, frank, heny joe. > >I tried to put this into faliases but it would only forward to the >first name. I tried to send Email, and it didn't work, so since someone else is interested, I'll post it. "faliases" (and the fact you're posting here) makes me think that you're using stock SCO Xenix, with the Elm mailer, and without anything like "smail" or "sendmail". If this is the case, then you want to put your aliases into the "/usr/lib/mail/aliases" file; not "faliases". "faliases" is used ONLY for forwarding mail for ONE user to a new location. It is recommended for cases where a particular user used to be on this machine, and moved to another. It is intended to be temporary. "aliases" is for more permanent aliases, and group aliases such as what you want to do. "maliases" is for *machine* aliases, which help you send mail to a given machine. If you have the manpages, look for "aliases" in the M section, and "aliashash" in the ADM section. Enjoy! Edwin.