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From: syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Bug in alias
Message-ID: <1990Mar16.135741.21683@DSI.COM>
Date: 16 Mar 90 13:57:41 GMT
References: <918@holin.ATT.COM>
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Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc.  Huntingdon Valley, PA
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bes@holin.ATT.COM (Bradley Smith) writes:
>For give me if this is covered.  I haven't seen it.  It maybe the
>way elm is configured.  But while in elm if you make a new alias
>(lets say 'test') and have 2 names in it 'bes' and 'machA!bes'
>and save them.  When you try to mail to test the alias is expanded
>as "bes, machA, bes".  If anyone could shed some light on this
>I would be greatful.
This is not a bug, but the most common misuse of aliases, as per
the alias manual, a alias must either point to a single user,
or a group of local users and other aliases.

Thus

test = comment = bes, machA!bes

is not valid.  What is required is

mAbes = comment = machA!bes
test = comment = bes, mAbes

(PS: aliases will be case insensitive in 2.3, so be careful of my
mAbes above.)
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