dave@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (David A Rasmussen) (09/24/87)
One of our student operators sent me a message today saying that he had an
alias where he was listed before another person and the other person never
got the mail.
So I looked into it and sure enough, it didn't work. Seems that if we have
a case as follows:
user: Joe user: joe_user@site.whatever
otest : oper test : scott , davidc, user
that if I mail to "otest" my to_line only shows "joe user" as a recipient.
I'm running 1.5b. I may have missed a couple patches. Has anyone else seen this
bug and have a fix, or should I just wait for 1.7?
Dave Rasmussen c/o Computing Services Division @ U of WI - Milwaukee
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In article <2924@uwmcsd1.UUCP>, dave@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (David A Rasmussen) writes: > ... Seems that if we have > a case as follows: > > user: Joe user: joe_user@site.whatever > otest : oper test : scott , davidc, user > > that if I mail to "otest" my to_line only shows "joe user" as a recipient. Alias.guide describes a restriction on group aliases like otest in your example: "The significant limitation with group aliases is that each of the people in the list must be a previously defined aliasname in either the existing alias file or the system alias file or a valid destination on the current machine." You must define scott and davidc as aliases in your alias file or the system alias file. -- Joel Shprentz Phone: (703) 848-7305 BDM Corporation Uucp: {rutgers,vrdxhq,rlgvax}!bdmrrr!shprentz 7915 Jones Branch Drive shprentz@bdmrrr.bdm.com McLean, Virginia 22102