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From: ske@pkmab.se (Kristoffer Eriksson)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: System aliases
Keywords: ELM, aliases.
Message-ID: <1512@pkmab.se>
Date: 31 Jul 89 17:12:30 GMT
References: <509@wubios.wustl.edu> <177@van-bc.UUCP> <1023@isaak.UUCP> <203@van-bc.UUCP> <1989Jul30.013125.7407@lokkur.dexter.mi.us>
Reply-To: ske@pkmab.se (Kristoffer Eriksson)
Organization: Peridot Konsult i Mellansverige AB, Oerebro, Sweden
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In article <1989Jul30.013125.7407@lokkur.dexter.mi.us> scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us (Steve Simmons) writes:
>skl@van-bc.UUCP (Samuel Lam) writes:
>>In article <1023@isaak.UUCP>, woerz@isaak.UUCP (Dieter Woerz) wrote:
>>>In article <177@van-bc.UUCP> I wrote:
>>>>In article <509@wubios.wustl.edu>, phil@wubios.UUCP (J. Philip Miller) wrote:
>>>There is still a problem. Asume you have the following system alias file:
>>>    allusers =  All users of this host  =   a, b, c, d, e, f
>>>and the sender of the message has the following in his personal
>>>aliases file:
>>>    c = ... =   c@x.y.z
>>>Then the c@x.y.z get the message that should have reached c on the
>>>local machine.
>
>This is a general and unsolvable problem with aliases.  Speaking as a
>member of the development group (but not for it), I would not change
>the feature.

Unsolvable?

If there was (I don't know if there is, just speaking theoretically) a way
to specify how the names in the alias list should be interpreted, you could
get whatever behavior you'd like.

In stead of writing

  allusers =  All users of this host  =   a, b, c

you could write something like

  allusers =  All users of this host  =   a@local, b@local, c@local

or even

  demoalias = Demo people = a@local, b@systemalias, c@useralias
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