[comp.mail.elm] Hostname Routing Database - Problem

dickson@escob1.UUCP (Dave Dickson) (07/06/90)

I can not get the Hostname Routing Database feature of elm to work.
I have elm 2.2 and elm 2.3 running on various machines and I seem to
have the same problem on all machines and versions of elm.

I am afraid the answer to this problem is going to something that I
have over looked, but I have read and re-read the manuals.

On machine uuxsdp:

/usr/local/lib/nmail.paths:
escob2<tab>escob1!escob2!%s

Typing:
elm escob2!user

Results in error message:
Couldn't expand system escob2!user

Typing:
elm escob2

Results in the "To:" field looking like:
To: escob5 mac

I know that the pathalias file is being opened and parsed, for if I
null out nmail.paths, I no longer get the error messages.  Of course
uucp fails after elm hands it off.

Any help would be appreciated, as I said, it is probably something simple
that I am overlooking - but I have given up.
-- 
David G. Dickson
Ohio Bell Telephone Co. (614-223-8134)
uunet!escob1!dickson