schaefer@cse.ogi.EDU (Barton E. Schaefer) (06/15/91)
On Jun 11, 11:10pm, Tim Cook wrote: } Subject: alias name "/pathname"? } } > alias name namelist set "name" to the value of namelist } > } > A "namelist" consists of one or more addresses. An address may } > be a name already set to another list, a valid user, a file or } > a program. Filenames must be full pathnames, i.e., they must } > begin with a '/' (or with a ~, which expands to some home dir). } } Have these last two features (where a name may be a file or program) been } implemented? I have tried setting up an alias that points to a file, which } in turn contains a list of addresses, one per record, but mush does not } send anything when I use the alias. The copy it saves for me (because I } have $record set), contains a blank "To:" header. Setting the alias to a file doesn't read the namelist from the file, it actually sends the message to that file. The intent is to allow mail sent to an alias to be recorded in a file specific to that alias, different than the generic one named in $record. So, yes, the features have been implemented, but not in the way you interpreted the doc. -- Bart Schaefer schaefer@zipcode.com Z-Code Software Corporation schaefer@cse.ogi.edu