GHC@NIHKLMB (Gerson H Cohen) (02/09/90)
In response to my query about hiding addresses in a mailing list, GOMIDE@BRFAPESP.BITNET wrote: >I use pmdf_root:[mailserv]listname.dis for public lists maintained by MAILSERV. >In each list you can subscribe in%"listname_hidden" then include in ALIASES. >listname_hidden: <disk:[pmdf.mailserv.private]listname.dis >and maintain there your "concealed" addresses. You can't maintain them via >MAILSERV, but this does the job. I tried to do this but found that the addresses in the second distribution file never received the mail messages. I also couldn't find a trail of failure in any of the logs. Ned implied in his response that he thinks that this should work, but it doesn't seem to. I tried both a name like in%new-name with a definition for new-name in the aliases file as well as a name like new-name with a VMS mail forwarding for new-name to in%new-name. Any other ideas? In a related problem (I did it at the same time!) I noted that using a "error return" entry in the alias definition pointing to a distribution list caused the apparent sender to be the address of the error return rather than the actual sender. I suppose that there's some logic there; however, it obscures the test for a remote user on a mailing list. I guess this is really just an observation, not a complaint! Gerson Cohen