bes@holin.ATT.COM (Bradley Smith) (03/16/90)
For give me if this is covered. I haven't seen it. It maybe the way elm is configured. But while in elm if you make a new alias (lets say 'test') and have 2 names in it 'bes' and 'machA!bes' and save them. When you try to mail to test the alias is expanded as "bes, machA, bes". If anyone could shed some light on this I would be greatful. -thanks brad FYI: patch level 16 elm 2.2 -- Bradley Smith Telecommunications Solutions Development AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ 201-949-0090 att!holin!bes or bes@holin.ATT.COM
syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein) (03/16/90)
bes@holin.ATT.COM (Bradley Smith) writes: >For give me if this is covered. I haven't seen it. It maybe the >way elm is configured. But while in elm if you make a new alias >(lets say 'test') and have 2 names in it 'bes' and 'machA!bes' >and save them. When you try to mail to test the alias is expanded >as "bes, machA, bes". If anyone could shed some light on this >I would be greatful. This is not a bug, but the most common misuse of aliases, as per the alias manual, a alias must either point to a single user, or a group of local users and other aliases. Thus test = comment = bes, machA!bes is not valid. What is required is mAbes = comment = machA!bes test = comment = bes, mAbes (PS: aliases will be case insensitive in 2.3, so be careful of my mAbes above.) -- ===================================================================== Sydney S. Weinstein, CDP, CCP Elm Coordinator Datacomp Systems, Inc. Voice: (215) 947-9900 syd@DSI.COM or bpa!dsinc!syd FAX: (215) 938-0235
taylor@limbo.Intuitive.Com (Dave Taylor) (03/17/90)
Bradley Smith writes that an alias of the form:
alias = whatever = localname, host!remotename
fails. Syd comments that it's designed that way. Curiously, though,
I find that my version is *not* like that. In fact, I created the
following alias:
test = testing = tutcom, decwrl!vixie, joe, nancy@mips.com
where "tutcom" is another alias in my alias file. Letting Elm
then expand it:
% elm test
To: tutcom@usenix.org (Usenix Tutorial Evaluation Committee), decwrl!vixie,
joe, nancy@mips.com
Subject:
Notice that it picked up and expanded the "tutcom" alias, and left everything
else alone. Further, we can even have aliases that point to aliases and
so on...
The question is, if this is in the version of Elm I gave to Syd and the
Usenet development group, how come it's ended up not being part of the
code?? Strange but true...
-- Dave Taylor
Intuitive Systems
Mountain View, California
taylor@limbo.intuitive.com or {uunet!}{decwrl,apple}!limbo!taylorbes@holin.ATT.COM (Bradley Smith) (03/19/90)
any chance of chaning to execpt 'machA!bes'. Seems like alot of excess typing needed. on a side note 'listalis' expands correctly (or should I say it prints it out like you entered. Also newalias doesn't complain about the alias as entered -- Bradley Smith Telecommunications Solutions Development AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ 201-949-0090 att!holin!bes or bes@holin.ATT.COM