david@wubios.wustl.edu (David J. Camp) (07/20/89)
I have been doing some testing as a follow-up on a note by Phil Miller (my boss) about how elm resolves personal versus system aliases. I have verified that a personal alias will take precedence over both a system alias and a local username, including when those names are used on a system mailing list. I do not know if this is good behavior or bad, but it is something that we need to think about. I think I will probably change all the aliases in my system alias file to something obscure like system_username. -David- -- Bitnet: david@wubios.wustl ^ Mr. David J. Camp Internet: david%wubios@wucs1.wustl.edu < * > Box 8067, Biostatistics uucp: uunet!wucs1!wubios!david v 660 South Euclid Washington University (314) 36-23635 Saint Louis, MO 63110
rob@PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo) (07/21/89)
In article <849@wubios.wustl.edu> david@wubios.wustl.edu (David J. Camp) writes:
+I have been doing some testing as a follow-up on a note by Phil Miller
+(my boss) about how elm resolves personal versus system aliases. I have
+verified that a personal alias will take precedence over both a system
+alias and a local username, including when those names are used on a
+system mailing list. I do not know if this is good behavior or bad, but
+it is something that we need to think about.
I think it is definitely good for aliases to override local lognames.
Under some configurations of ELM, elm does not verify local lognames.
This means that under such configurations, it is not possible for elm
to give precedence to local lognames over aliases because elm won't
know whether an address is a local logname.
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